Lost in Transition - Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan

Informationen zum Autor Mary C. Brinton is Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She has also held professorships at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. She is the author of Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan, the editor of Women's Working Lives in East Asia, and the co-editor of The Declining Significance of Gender? Her work has appeared frequently in journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and Sociology of Education. Klappentext This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy. Zusammenfassung This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy. The book describes how young Japanese workers have lost out to the entrenched interests of older workers and are struggling to gain a sense of identity and security. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The lost generation; 2. The historical roots of Japanese school-work institutions; 3. The importance of ba, the erosion of ba; 4. Unraveling school-employer relationships; 5. Networks of advantage and disadvantage for new graduates; 6. Narratives of the new mobility; 7. The future of the lost generation.

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• Authors: Mary Brinton, Mary C. Brinton, Mary C. (Professor Brinton, Brinton Mary C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521126007
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12600-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Japan, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Labour / income economics, Politics & government, Sociology: work & labour, Age groups: adolescents, Sociology: work and labour