Blue-collar Workers in Japan and Holland
Author: Ernest Jacques van Helvoort
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
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Constructs For Understanding Japan
Author: Yoshio Sugimoto
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 113614370X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1989. This volume has emerged from the International Colloquium on the Comparative Study of Japanese Society. Held at Noosa Heads in Queensland from 29 January to 6 February 1982, the colloquium brought together participants from eight countries to discuss about thirty papers. The participants came with a common sense of dissatisfaction with the 'group model' or 'consensus-oriented theories' as a means of understanding Japanese society. The papers and discussion focused on alternative approaches for conceptualizing Japanese society and on methodological issues in the comparative study of Japanese society.
The Japanese Economy
Author: Peter Drysdale
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780415174374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Japanese Working Man
Author: E. van Helvoort
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan at a Deadlock
Author: Michio Morishima
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2000-08-22
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 023051216X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Professor Morishima's book Why has Japan 'Succeeded'? (1982) was published, Japan was still a country of 'capitalism from above'. For the past ten years the country's economy has faltered and declined. It is turning towards 'capitalism from below' despite Japan's weak democracy. This directional change is investigated through a variety of standpoints, using an in-depth knowledge of the Japanese ethos, national history, educational background, as well as the sociology of the Japanese economy and business world. The author offers a long-term forecast for the future of Japan.
Competencies, Higher Education and Career in Japan and the Netherlands
Author: Jim Allen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-09-20
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1402060440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates how social and cultural factors affect the education, training and career development of graduates of higher education in Japan and the Netherlands. The aim of this book is to explore how Dutch and Japanese graduates choose and develop their careers in reference to the above-mentioned challenges. It is based on a unique data set consisting of surveys held among graduates three and eight years after leaving higher education.
Governance at Work : The Social Regulation of Economic Relations
Author: Richard Whitley
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1997-06-26
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0191590894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal pressures present similar challenges to companies in different countries, but how those organizations deal with them depends on the social and institutional framework in which they develop and operate. In this book, leading academics explore and explain variations in governance systems, focusing in particular on European trends. In Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations the authors ask: · Are structures of work and business organization changing? Are we seeing a move away from large-scale (Fordist) mass-production systems that have dominated the industrialized world in the 20th century? · What are the local/national determinants of business organization? · Can we speak of different national business systems if so, how do these interact with the operations of international companies in global competition?
Class Structure in Contemporary Japan
Author: Kenji Hashimoto
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781876843717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on data collected on 1995 by the Japanese Sociological Association, this book investigates four major classes - new, old middle, capitalist and working - and their characteristics and mobility patterns in terms of income, work, social network, leisure activity, gender relations and voting behaviour.
Employment Relations in the Growing Asian Economies
Author: Thomas Kochan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-17
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 113480055X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the role of employment relations in the context of economic development in some of the key Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In recent years, these Asian economies have become increasingly more open and export-driven, and there is strong interest all over the world in the Asian economic `miracle' among practitioners and scholars alike. Although much has been written on this region, few books have concentrated on the human resource aspects of this growth. The authors build on the basic premise that the initial success of these countries has lain in low wages and suppression of workers' rights. However, they point out that as employment relations evolve enterprises will either pull out due to rising wages, or stay and prosper by adapting to higher wages. Cases are provided to illustrate both of these features. The evidence in the book suggests that unless a synergy is created between firm-level and state-level human resource policies in areas such as skill formation and workers' need for voice, economic growth is unlikely to be sustainable.
Social Mobility in Industrial Society
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781412834353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a careful analysis of the existing literature, the authors marshal an imposing array of evidence in support of their major argument that social mobility is an integral and continuing aspect of the process of industrialization. This classic volume continues to be a basic reference source in the field of occupational mobility.
