The Wages of Affluence
Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
Published on 1. July 2009
288 pages
978-0-674-03781-6 (ISBN)
Description
Gordon reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation in the Japanese workplace. Beginning with Occupation reforms and their influence, Gordon traces worker activism and protest in the 1950s and '60s, and how they gave way to management victory in the 1960s and '70s.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03781-6 (9780674037816)
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01/1999
Harvard University Press
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Person
Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Content
Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Prologue Chapter 1. Japan Reborn Chapter 2. Organizing the Steelworkers Chapter 3. Restoring Managerial and State Authority Chapter 4. Reinventing the Steel Mill Chapter 5. Forging an Activist Union Chapter 6. Breaking the Impasse Chapter 7. Fabricating the Politics of Cooperation Chapter 8. Mobilizing Total Commitment Chapter 9. Managing Society for Business Chapter 10. Japan's Third Way Appendix: Figures Notes Works Cited Index
