Women Work And The Japanese Economic Miracle

Author : Helen Macnaughtan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415328055

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Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle by Helen Macnaughtan Pdf

This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better known Japanese employment system which was applied to male employees. Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle describes and analyses the place of female workers in the cotton textile industry, which was a crucially important industry with a large workforce. In presenting detailed data on such key issues as recruitment systems, management practices and the working experience of the women involved, it demonstrates the importance for Japan's postwar economy of harnessing female labour during these years.

Author : Mary C. Brinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520915473

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Women and the Economic Miracle by Mary C. Brinton Pdf

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader. Drawing upon historical materials, survey and statistical data, and extensive interviews in Japan, Mary Brinton provides an in-depth and original examination of the role of gender in Japan's phenomenal postwar economic growth. Brinton finds that the educational system, the workplace, and the family in Japan have shaped the opportunities open to female workers. Women move in and out of the workforce depending on their age and family duties, a great disadvantage in a system that emphasizes seniority and continuous work experience. Brinton situates the vicious cycle that perpetuates traditional gender roles within the concept of human capital development, whereby Japanese society "underinvests" in the capabilities of women. The effects of this underinvestment are reinforced indirectly as women sustain male human capital through unpaid domestic labor and psychological support. Brinton provides a clear analysis of a society that remains misunderstood, but whose economic transformation has been watched with great interest by the industrialized world.

Author : Mary C. Brinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520075633

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Women and the Economic Miracle by Mary C. Brinton Pdf

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader. Drawing upon historical materials, survey and statistical data, and extensive interviews in Japan, Mary Brinton provides an in-depth and original examination of the role of gender in Japan's phenomenal postwar economic growth. Brinton finds that the educational system, the workplace, and the family in Japan have shaped the opportunities open to female workers. Women move in and out of the workforce depending on their age and family duties, a great disadvantage in a system that emphasizes seniority and continuous work experience. Brinton situates the vicious cycle that perpetuates traditional gender roles within the concept of human capital development, whereby Japanese society "underinvests" in the capabilities of women. The effects of this underinvestment are reinforced indirectly as women sustain male human capital through unpaid domestic labor and psychological support. Brinton provides a clear analysis of a society that remains misunderstood, but whose economic transformation has been watched with great interest by the industrialized world.

Author : Heidi Gottfried
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004291485

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The Reproductive Bargain by Heidi Gottfried Pdf

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labor insecurities behind Japan’s postwar employment system. This economic juggernaut’s decline cannot be understood without reference to the reproductive bargain. Gendering institutional analysis is a key to deciphering the enigma of Japanese capitalism.

Author : Mary C. Brinton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804743541

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Women’s Working Lives in East Asia by Mary C. Brinton Pdf

This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is similar or different about women's economic participation in this region of the world compared to Western societies, the book also asks how women's work patterns vary across the three countries.

Author : Mary C. Brinton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139492522

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Lost in Transition by Mary C. Brinton Pdf

Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of employment. The much-admired system of moving young people smoothly from school to work has frayed. The book argues that these changes in the very fabric of Japanese postwar institutions have loosened young people's attachment to school as the launching pad into the world of work and loosened their attachment to the workplace as a source of identity and security. The implications for the future of Japanese society - and the fault lines within it - loom large.

Author : James Trager
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039282368

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Letters from Sachiko by James Trager Pdf

Author : Sachiko,James Trager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0349133646

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Letters from Sachiko by Sachiko,James Trager Pdf

Author : Kathryn Ward
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501717086

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Women Workers and Global Restructuring by Kathryn Ward Pdf

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Author : Mary Saso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001686356

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Women in the Japanese Workplace by Mary Saso Pdf

Based, in part, on interviews conducted with women in Japan and the UK.

Author : Helen Macnaughtan
Publisher : RoutledgeCurzon
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415328063

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Women and Work in Postwar Japan by Helen Macnaughtan Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women working in the Japanese post-war economy. It shows how the role of women in the economy developed in the years of rapid economic growth when women workers were increasingly in demand to alleviate labour shortages; considers the role of women in different sectors of the economy; and discusses the important tensions between the traditional cultural role of women as wife, mother and housewife and their new role as 'modern' working women.

Author : Aaron Forsberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807860663

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America and the Japanese Miracle by Aaron Forsberg Pdf

In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of recently released American, British, and Japanese archival records, Forsberg demonstrates that American Cold War strategy and the U.S. commitment to liberal trade played a central role in promoting Japanese economic welfare and in forging the economic relationship between Japan and the United States. The price of economic opportunity and interdependence, however, was a strong undercurrent of mutual frustration, as patterns of conflict and compromise over trade, investment, and relations with China continued to characterize the postwar U.S.-Japanese relationship. Forsberg's emphasis on the dynamic interaction of Cold War strategy, the business environment, and Japanese development challenges "revisionist" interpretations of Japan's success. In exploring the complex origins of the U.S.-led international economy that has outlasted the Cold War, Forsberg refutes the claim that the U.S. government sacrificed American commercial interests in favor of its military partnership with Japan.

Author : Leonard J. Schoppa
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801461804

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Race for the Exits by Leonard J. Schoppa Pdf

Contrary to all expectations, Japan's long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation's malfunctioning economic structure. The country's basic social contract has so far proved resistant to reform, even in the face of persistently adverse conditions. In Race for the Exits, Leonard J. Schoppa explains why it has endured and how long it can last. The postwar Japanese system of "convoy capitalism" traded lifetime employment for male workers against government support for industry and the private (female) provision of care for children and the elderly. Two social groups bore a particularly heavy burden in providing for the social protection of the weak and dependent: large firms, which committed to keeping their core workforce on the payroll even in slow times, and women, who stayed home to care for their homes and families. Using the exit-voice framework made famous by Albert Hirschman, Schoppa argues that both groups have chosen "exit" rather than "voice," depriving the political process of the energy needed to propel necessary reforms in the system. Instead of fighting for reform, firms slowly shift jobs overseas, and many women abandon hopes of accommodating both family and career. Over time, however, these trends have placed growing economic and demographic pressures on the social contract. As industries reduce their domestic operations, the Japanese economy is further diminished. Japan has also experienced a "baby bust" as women opt out of motherhood. Schoppa suggests that a radical break with the Japanese social contract of the past is becoming inevitable as the system slowly and quietly unravels.

Author : Mary C. Brinton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520089204

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Women and the Economic Miracle by Mary C. Brinton Pdf

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its status as a world economic leader. Drawing upon historical materials, survey and statistical data, and extensive interviews in Japan, Mary Brinton provides an in-depth and original examination of the role of gender in Japan's phenomenal postwar economic growth. Brinton finds that the educational system, the workplace, and the family in Japan have shaped the opportunities open to female workers. Women move in and out of the workforce depending on their age and family duties, a great disadvantage in a system that emphasizes seniority and continuous work experience. Brinton situates the vicious cycle that perpetuates traditional gender roles within the concept of human capital development, whereby Japanese society "underinvests" in the capabilities of women. The effects of this underinvestment are reinforced indirectly as women sustain male human capital through unpaid domestic labor and psychological support. Brinton provides a clear analysis of a society that remains misunderstood, but whose economic transformation has been watched with great interest by the industrialized world.

Author : Michael Adas
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 1566390680

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Islamic & European Expansion by Michael Adas Pdf

This volume of essays makes available the essential background information and methods for effective teaching and writing on cross-cultural history. The contributors--some of the most distinguished writers of global and comparative history--chart the advances in understanding in their fields of concentration, revealing both specific findings and broad patterns that have emerged. The cover image, "The Arrival of the Dutch at Patane," from Theodore de Bry, India Orientals, Part VIII (Frankfurt: W. Richteri, 1607) depicts the two key phases of global history that are covered by the essays. Muslim inhabitants of the town of Patane on the Malayan peninsula warily confront a Dutch landing party whose bearing suggests that it is engaged in yet another episode in the saga of European overseas exploration and discovery. The presence of the Muslims in Malaya reflects an earlier process of expansion that saw Islamic civilization spread from Spain and Morocco in the west to the Philippines in the east in the millennium between the 7th and 17th centuries. The Dutch came by sea to an area on the coastal and island fringes of Asia, the one zone where their warships gave them a decisive edge in this era. The citizens of Patane had good reason to distrust the European intruders, since the Portuguese who had preceded the Dutch had used force whenever possible to control the formerly peaceful trade in the region and often to persecute Muslim Peoples. Author note: Michael Adas is Abraham Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is currently editor of the American Historical Association's series on Global and Comparative History and co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series on "Studies in Comparative World History." He has published numerous articles and books, including most recently (with Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz) World Civilization: The Global Experience (1992) and Turbulent Passage: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (1993).