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"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"-- "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 have 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"--
Youth --- Jeunesse --- Employment --- Travail --- Youth - Employment - Japan
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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.
Social Sciences --- Sociology --- Youth --- Labor --- Employment --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Styles & Communication
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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.
Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- asian history. --- california series on social choice and political economy. --- dead end jobs. --- domestic labor. --- education. --- educational system. --- family. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- industrialization. --- japan. --- japanese economy. --- japanese education. --- japanese family. --- japanese history. --- labor. --- low paying jobs. --- postwar economic growth. --- postwar japan. --- psychological support. --- regulation of women. --- seniority. --- traditional gender roles. --- women in the workplace. --- work experience. --- work. --- workforce. --- workplace. --- world economic leader.
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Women --- Femmes --- Employment --- Travail
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Economics --- Financial institutions. --- Social change. --- Social institutions. --- Social norms. --- Sociology. --- Sociological aspects.
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Economics --- Financial institutions --- Social change --- Social institutions --- Social norms --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects
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"Ezra F. Vogel (July 11, 1930-December 20, 2020) was one of America's foremost experts on Asia, mastering the Japanese and Chinese languages and contributing important scholarly works on both countries and on their relationship with each other and with the world. Starting from modest roots in an immigrant family in a small town in Ohio, he came to Harvard in 1953 to train as a sociologist. He then shifted his focus to Asia, spending almost the entirety of his life at Harvard. He had a dramatic impact around the world, not only through his scholarship and the students he trained, but also through his friendship and mentoring of journalists, diplomats, business executives, and foreign leaders, as well as through his public policy advice and devotion to institution-building, not only at Harvard, but nationally and internationally. Active until the end, the news of his sudden death provoked outpourings of gratitude and grief from the countless individuals whose lives he had affected. The present volume, containing fond reminiscences from 155 diverse individuals, conveys what was so extraordinary about the character and life of Ezra Vogel"--
Vogel, Ezra F. --- Education --- Philosophy.
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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Pay equity --- Sex discrimination against women --- Pay equity. --- Sex discrimination against women. --- Sex discrimination in employment. --- #SBIB:316.346H22 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M10 --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: arbeid en beroep --- Medische sociologie: algemeen --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Sex role in the work environment --- Sexual division of labor --- Women --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Comparable worth --- Equal pay for comparable work --- Equal pay for work of comparable value --- Equity, Pay --- Worth, Comparable --- Wages --- Employment
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