The Labor Union Movement in Postwar Japan. [With Forew. of Kuniyoshi Saito].
Author: Kuniyoshi Saito
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 97
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Author: Kuniyoshi Saito
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 97
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ikuo Kume
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 150173184X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapanese scholars have begun to challenge conventional wisdom about effective labor organizing, and Ikuo Kume has written the first book in English to advance their controversial theory. Since at least the early 1980s, the power of organized labor has weakened in most advanced industrial countries. The decline of organized labor has coincided with the decentralization of labor-management relations. As a result, most observers assume that decentralized labor is destined to lose power in a capitalist economy, and that enterprise unions will tend to be docile and powerless. Kume documents the one notable exception. The Japanese trade union confederation has steadily grown in importance, expanding its scope beyond individual companies to national policy making. Kume traces the achievements of enterprise unionism in private firms. Labor, he argues, slowly gained legitimate corporate membership by establishing joint institutions with management. By the 1960s, labor-management councils, stimulated by foreign competition, had become a widespread feature of Japanese industry. Soon unions were regular participants in the government deliberation councils and in the information exchange that shaped policy when inflation hit the Japanese economy. The unions had become a full partner by the 1980s and were crucially involved in the 1993 defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party after thirty-eight years of rule.
Author: Kazuyoshi Kōshiro
Publisher: 日本労働研究機構
Published: 2000-03-31
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews the history of the labour movement and industrial development in Japan from 1945 to 1999.
Author: Nikkan Rōdō Tsūshinsha
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 97
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael H. Gibbs
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 340
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 97
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Gerteis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1684174945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the formative years of the Japanese labor movement after World War II, the socialist unions affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions (the labor federation known colloquially as Sohyo) formally endorsed the principles of women’s equality in the workforce and put in place measures to promote women’s active participation in union activities. However, union leaders did not embrace the legal framework for gender equality mandated by their American occupiers; rather, they pressured thousands of women labor activists to assume supportive roles that privileged a male-centered social agenda. By the late 1950s, even Japan’s radical socialist unions had reestablished the primacy of conservative gender norms, channeling women’s labor activism to support political campaigns that advantaged a male-headed household and that relegated women’s wage-earning value to the periphery of the household economy. By showing how unions raised the wages of male workers in part by transforming working-class women into middle-class housewives, Christopher Gerteis demonstrates that organized labor’s discourse on womanhood not only undermined women’s status within the labor movement but also prevented unions from linking with the emerging woman-led, neighborhood-centered organizations that typified social movements in the 1960s—a misstep that contributed to the decline of the socialist labor movement in subsequent decades."
Author: Andrew Gordon
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGordon 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.
Author: Marie Alice Edwards
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 948
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