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This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their lives and their culture during a time of conflict and instability. What emerges is a sensitive portrait of how workers grapple with a slowed economy and the contradictions of Japanese industry in the late postwar era. The ways that they think and feel about accommodation, resistance, and protest raise essential questions about the transformation of labor practices and limits of worker cooperation and compliance.

Labor unions --- Working class --- Labor movement --- Class consciousness --- Industrial relations --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Japan --- Social conditions --- Consciousness --- Social perception --- Social classes --- J4010 --- J4202 --- J4350 --- J4352 --- Japan: Social sciences in general -- ideology, socio-political and socio-economic movements --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- middle class, shi-nō-kō-shō --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- social conditions --- Conscience de classe --- Relations industrielles --- Mouvement ouvrier --- Syndicats --- Travailleurs --- Japon --- Conditions sociales --- 1945 --- -Trade-unions - Japan. --- Working class - Japan. --- Social movements - Japan. --- Class consciousness - Japan. --- Japan - Social conditions - 1945 --- -Class consciousness --- -Labor unions --- accommodation. --- blue collar workers. --- class consciousness. --- community. --- democracy. --- demonstrations. --- economy. --- ethnography. --- factories. --- factory workers. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese industry. --- japanese labor history. --- japanese society. --- japanese unions. --- labor disputes. --- labor movements. --- labor practices. --- labor relations. --- labor. --- political action. --- protest. --- protests. --- radical labor protest. --- resistance. --- social relations. --- solidarity. --- union meetings. --- union. --- work. --- worker compliance. --- worker cooperation. --- worker dignity. --- Trade-unions - Japan.