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Reworking Japan

Reworking Japan

Hardcover

AnthropologyJapanese HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1501753037
ISBN13: 9781501753039
Publisher: Ilr Pr
Published: Jan 15 2021
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan's corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of individual employees. With Japan's remarkable economic growth since the 1950s, the lifestyles and life courses of salarymen came to embody the New Middle Class family ideal. However, the nearly three decades of economic stagnation and reforms since the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s has intensified corporate retrenchment under the banner of neoliberal restructuring and brought new challenges to employees and their previously protected livelihoods. In a sweeping appraisal of recent history, Gagné demonstrates how economic restructuring has reshaped Japanese corporations, workers, and ideals, as well as how Japanese companies and employees have resisted and actively responded to such changes.

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