Japan works : power and paradox in postwar industrial relations / John Price
- Bib ID:
- 2991068
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Price, John, 1950-
- Description:
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- Ithaca : ILR Press, 1997
- xvi, 315 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0801483603 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- 0801432855 (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- Cornell international industrial and labor relations reports ; no. 30.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction. Lean Production: The Issues. Lean Production and Industrial Relations. History: Critical and Comparative Approaches. A Specific Comparative Framework. Case Studies
- 2. Testing the Limits: Workers' Challenge (1945-1948). Revolution from the Top. Revolution in Labor Relations. Labor's Achievements. Shift in Alignments
- 3. The Japan-U.S. Business Alliance: Capital Retaliates (1948-1951). Public Sector Attacked. The Employer Offensive (1948-1950). The Effects on the Labor Movement. The Ironies of Anticommunism
- 4. Forms and Substance of Labor-Management Relations (1951-1955). Nikkeiren and the Managerial Arena. Resurgent Unionism. Sohyo: Splits and Shunto
- 5. Institutions Emerge: Tensions, Limits, and Challenges (1955-1959). Signs and Sources of Conflict. New Standards in Industrial Relations. Labor Market Segmentation. Contesting Visions
- 6. Lean Production and the Quality Movement: Suzuki and Toyota. The Suzuki Regime. Lean Production: Toyota.
- The Quality Control Movement and Taylorism
- 7. Miike 1960: The Limits of Coercion. Prelude to Confrontation: Production Politics and the Energy Crisis. Phase One: Isolation and Division. Phase Two: Breakaway Union. Phase Three: Nationwide Mobilization. Phase Four: Summer Showdown
- 8. High-Speed Growth and Unequal Development. Uneven Development: Ascent of the Automobile Industry. Uneven Development: The Decline of Coal. The Public Sector: Moriguchi City. Hegemony and High-Speed Growth
- 9. Conclusion. Case Studies: Variations in Workplace Regimes. Postwar History: Conflict and Compromise. Labor and Postwar Industrial Relations. Lean Production.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-305) and index.
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