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labor movements, workers, and managers

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Portraits of the Japanese workplace

labor movements, workers, and managers

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In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the "light and shadow" of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination of competition and community within Japanese workplaces. He highlights dilemmas facing Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement.

His discussion ranges from the role of women to issues of quality control and self-management. Highly critical of the hierarchical and undemocratic nature of Japanese industry, he offers a sympathetic view from the inside of the difficulties of surviving in the workplaces of contemporary Japan.

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Publisher
Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
267

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from Japanese.

Published in
Boulder, Colo
Series
Social change in global perspective, Social change in global perspective (Boulder, Colo.)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331/.0952
Library of Congress
HD8726.5 .K772 1996, HD8726.5.K772 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 267 p. :
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL977809M
Internet Archive
portraitsofjapan00kuma
ISBN 10
0813317096, 0813317088
LCCN
96015010
OCLC/WorldCat
34597981
Library Thing
9081759
Goodreads
3475405
5256898

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