The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan

Seitenzahl:

288

Gewicht:

358 g

Erschienen bei:

Harvard Univ Pr

Kurzbeschreibung

Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Managerial hegemony was achieved only after a bitter struggle that undermined the democratic potential of postwar society. The book draws on examples across Japanese industry, but focuses in depth on iron and steel. This industry was at the center of the country's economic recovery and high-speed growth, a primary site of corporate managerial strategy and important labor union initiatives.< P>

Portrait

History at Harvard University (also Chair of the Department).

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Mehr über:  Economic History, Politics / Current Events, Asia - Japan, Labor & Industrial Relations - General

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Mehr von:  Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Press + Loeb Classical Library