The State and Labor in Modern Japan
1st Edition
Published on 9. November 1987
326 pages
978-0-520-90980-9 (ISBN)
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In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of suppression and mutual antagonism.
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Sheldon Garon is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Note on Japanese Names
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Origins of Japanese Social Policy, 1868-1918
- The Workers
- State and Business: Factory Legislation as Industrial Policy
- The "Social Question" and Social Policy
- Policies toward Organized Labor
- Parties and Social Policy
- 2. A Crisis in Relations between Labor and Capital, 1918-22
- The Labor Question
- Capitalists Propose Reforms
- The Seiyukai Government and the Modernization of "Harmony
- The Kenseikai and the Social Foundations of Interwar Reform
- The Liberal Vision
- Labor Estranged, 1920-22
- 3. The Social Bureaucrats and the Integration of Labor, 1918-27
- From Economic to Social Bureaucrats
- Toward a New Labor Policy
- Reshaping the Labor Movement
- The Impact on Labor and Management, 1924-28
- 4. The Politics of Social Policy, 1924-29
- A Universal Suffrage for Industry": The Labor Union Bills of 1926 and 1927
- Reinterpreting the Peace Preservation Law
- Minseito and Seiyukai: Divergent Responses to Universal Manhood Suffrage
- The Bureaucrats Enter Politics
- Social Policy or Antisocialism?: The Parliamentary Debate, 1928-29
- 5. The Limits of Liberal Reform, 1929-31
- Dynamic Beginnings
- The Employers' Offensive
- The "Social Bureau Draft
- Parliamentary Debacle
- The Death of Liberal Social Policy
- 6. The Statist Solution, 1931-45
- Labor's Turn to the State
- Search for a New Labor Policy, 1931-36
- Unions Bypassed: The Industrial Patriotic Movement, 1936-40
- The Failure of State Corporatism, 1940-45
- Epilogue: Legacies for Postwar Japan
- Persistence of the Social Bureaucrats
- The Occupation Reforms
- The "Reverse Course" and Japanese History
- Toward Corporatism with Labor?
- Appendix 1: Industrial Strikes, 1897-1941
- Appendix 2: Cabinets and Ministers Related to Labor Policy, 1908-32
- Appendix 3: Strike-related Arrests under Article 17 of the Police Regulations and Other Charges, 1914-26
- Appendix 4: Occupational Background of the Nonproletarian Parties, Lower House Representatives, 1920-30
- Appendix 5: An Outline of Labor Union Bills
- Appendix 6: Labor Unions and Union Membership, 1918-41
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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