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9780801432859

Japan Works

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801432859

  • ISBN10:

    0801432855

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-03-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Table of Contents

TABLES
ix(2)
FIGURES
xi(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii(2)
ABBREVIATIONS xv
1 Introduction
1(36)
Lean Production: The Issues
5(2)
Lean Production and Industrial Relations
7(7)
History: Critical and Comparative Approaches
14(12)
A Specific Comparative Framework
26(7)
Case Studies
33(4)
2 Testing the Limits: Worker's Challenge (1945-1948)
37(30)
Revolution from the Top
37(4)
Revolution in Labor Relations
41(10)
Labor's Achievements
51(7)
Shift in Alignments
58(9)
3 The Japan-U.S. Business Alliance: Capital Retaliates (1948-1951)
67(31)
Public Sector Attacked
68(3)
The Employer Offensive (1948-1950)
71(12)
The Effects on the Labor Movement
83(5)
The Ironies of Anticommunism
88(10)
4 Forms and Substance of Labor-Management Relations (1951-1955)
98(29)
Nikkeiren and the Managerial Arena
100(10)
Resurgent Unionism
110(11)
Sohyo: Splits and Shunto
121(6)
5 Institutions Emerge: Tensions, Limits, and Challenges (1955-1959)
127(34)
Signs and Sources of Conflict
128(7)
New Standards in Industrial Relations
135(11)
Labor Market Segmentation
146(4)
Contesting Visions
150(11)
6 Lean Production and the Quality Movement: Suzuki and Toyota
161(30)
The Suzuki Regime
162(12)
Lean Production: Toyota
174(8)
The Quality Control Movement and Taylorism
189(9)
7 Miike 1960: The Limits of Coercion
191(28)
Prelude to Confrontation: Production Politics and the Energy Crisis
192(9)
Phase One: Isolation and Division
201(5)
Phase Two: Breakaway Union
206(3)
Phase Three: Nationwide Mobilization
209(4)
Phase Four: Summer Showdown
213(6)
8 High-Speed Growth and Unequal Development
219(40)
Uneven Development: Ascent of the Automobile Industry
223(8)
Uneven Development: The Decline of Coal
231(10)
The Public Sector: Moriguchi City
241(8)
Hegemony and High-Speed Growth
249(10)
9 Conclusion
259(36)
Case Studies: Variations in Workplace Regimes
261(5)
Postwar History: Conflict and Compromise
266(7)
Labor and Postwar Industrial Relations
273(14)
Lean Production
287(8)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 295(12)
INDEX 307

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