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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection

Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection

Schoppa, Leonard J.

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General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0801474450
ISBN13: 9780801474453
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2008
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

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.

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