The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan
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Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Managerial hegemony was achieved only after a bitter struggle that undermined the democratic potential of postwar society. The book draws on examples across Japanese industry, but focuses in depth on iron and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674007069
ISBN13:9780674007062
Release Date:November 2001
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"
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