Disparaged Success : : Labor Politics in Postwar Japan / / Ikuo Kume.

Japanese scholars have begun to challenge conventional wisdom about effective labor organizing, and Ikuo Kume has written the first book in English to advance their controversial theory. Since at least the early 1980s, the power of organized labor has weakened in most advanced industrial countries....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1998
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 24 tables, 24 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: The Puzzle of Japanese Labor Politics
  • 2. Reenvisioning the Role of Labor in Japan
  • 3. Institutionalizing Labor Accommodation within the Company
  • 4. Nationalizing Wage Negotiations
  • 5. Back into Politics: Labor in the 1970s
  • 6. Defending Employment Security
  • 7. The Conservative Resurgence: Labor in the 1980s
  • 8. The Distinctiveness of the Japanese Solution
  • Author Index
  • General Index