Understanding Industrial Relations in Modern Japan

This book denies the cultural uniqueness of Japanese industrial relations and economy, characterised by permanent employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism. The author provides an entirely new explanation of Japanese workers' high morale and Japan's impressive economic performance which, he argues, results from skilled employees working against a background of high technology. The argument of the book is based on intensive field-work, consisting of a series of interviews with veteran workers on the shop floor, and on an explicit comparative study between the USA and Japan.

List of contents

List of Tables - Preface - Introduction: Interpretations of Japanese Industrial Relations - Seniority Wages? - Permanent Employment? - Workers' Careers in the USA - Workers' Careers in Large Japanese Companies - Workers' Careers in Small Japanese Companies - White-Collar Careers in Large Japanese Companies - Enterprise Unionism - A Typology of Labour to Explain Industrial Relations - Index

Summary

The author provides an entirely new explanation of Japanese workers' high morale and Japan's impressive economic performance which, he argues, results from skilled employees working against a background of high technology.

Product details

• Authors: Kazu Koike, Kazuo Koike, Mary Saso, Trans Mary Saso
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1988
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 465 g
• Series: Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy; Studies on the Modern Japanese Economy; Studies on the Modern Japanese; Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy; Studies in the Modern Japanese; Studies on the Modern Japanese
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries