The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan

by Andrew Gordon

Book Overview

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"