| Description |
1 online resource (284 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Translator's Foreword; 1 Introduction; The Spread of Japanese-Style Management; In Search of Images of Japanese Workers; Themes and Perspectives; Overview; 2 The ""Take-Off"" of Japanese Workers; British and American Models; Approaches to Japan; Early Conditions; Experiments with Independence and Self-Help; The Route to a Japanese-Style Take-Off; Features of the Japanese-Style Take-Off; 3 Features of Organized Workers in Postwar Japan; Fukuda Tatsuo and a Woman Miner; A Japanese Mode of Worker Thought |
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Equality as an EmployeeEquality as a Member of the Nation; Minimum Livelihood Guarantees; 4 Limits and Costs of the Postwar Labor Movement; Business Unionism; Life at the Production Site; Escape from the Bottom of the Ladder; Dilemmas and Solutions After the Oil Crisis; Taking Off Once More; 5 Light and Shadow in Quality Control Circles; Why Talk About Quality Control Circles?; Activities to Improve Technical Skills; Security and Reduced Hardship at the Workplace; Operating Rates and Defect Rates; Diverse Patterns of Efficiency Enhancement; The Carnage of Staffing Cuts |
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The World of ""Model"" Quality ControlLiving as Residents of Workplace Society; Three Standards of Evaluation; 6 A Postwar History of the Workplace: Management and Unions in the Steel Industry; Themes and Perspectives; Management Strategy and Policy; The ""Postwar Responsibility"" of Labor Unions; Labor-Management Relations in the Steel Industry Today; 7 A Postwar History of Women Workers; Perspective and Methodology; Prewar"" Conditions Under the Postwar Constitution: 1945-1955; Simplified Jobs and the Gender-Specific ""Escape"" Route: 1955รข#x80;#x94;1965 |
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The Systematic Restructuring of Discrimination: 1965-1975Recent Decades: 1975-1995; Reflections in 1995; 8 Twenty Years of a Bank Worker's Life; In the Union's Young Men and Women's Division; Kawabe's Ordeal in the Late 1960s; A Course Burdened with Contradictions; Last Years; Epilogue; 9 Working Like Mad to Stay in Place: Reflections on Japanese Salary-Men Today; About the Book and Authors; Index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrial management -- Japan.
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Industrial relations-Japan
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Labor movement-Japan
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Industrial management
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gordon, Andrew
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Hane, Mikiso
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Selden, Mark
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| ISBN |
9780429966682 |
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0429966687 |
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