Chapter
1.3.4 The generation of surplus
1.4 Work ideology in the changing world system
1.5 Toward a superior work ethic?
1.5.2 Choice and free trade
1.5.3 Human rights and the right to compete
1.6 Toward an understanding of work in Japan
1.7 The structure of this volume
2 Toward a sociology of work in postwar Japan
2.1 Perspectives on work in Japan
2.2 Eight intellectual traditions focused on understanding work in Japan
2.2.1 The Social Policy School (Shakai Seisaku Gakkai)
2.2.2 Theories of worker-capitalist relations (roshi kankei ron) and the union movement (rodo undo ron)
2.2.3 Labor economics (rodo keizaigaku)
2.2.4 Industrial relations (roshi kankei ron)
2.2.5 Japanese-style management (nihonteki keiei ron)
2.2.6 Industrial sociology (sangyo shakaigaku)
2.2.7 The sociology of labor (rodo shakaigaku)
2.2.8 The science of labor (rodo kagaku)
2.3 Human networks and the sociology of work in postwar Japan
2.4 Early postwar studies of workers as a community
2.5 Modernization theory and the culturalist reaction
2.6 The coming challenge to the sociology of work in Japan
3 Competing models for understanding work in Japan
3.1 Toward an appreciation of competing models
3.1.1 The conflict approach
3.1.2 The institutional approach
3.1.3 The behavioralist approach
3.1.4 The culturalist approach
3.2 Some competing perspectives
3.2.1 Koike Kazuo and the environment conducive to skill formation
3.2.2 Inagami Takeshi, the affluent worker, and corporatistic arrangements
3.2.3 Nomura Masami: skilling and the segmentation of work
3.2.4 Kumazawa Makoto and the inordinately competitive society which is the Japanese firm
3.3 Toward a framework for understanding work and labor process in contemporary Japan
Part II The commitment to being at work
4 Hours of work, labor-force participation and the work ethic
4.1 How hard do the Japanese work?
4.2 Hours of work: comparisons and trends
4.3 Laborforce participation and the organization of time: some comparisons and trends
4.3.1 The two-day weekend
4.3.3 Time spent commuting
4.3.4 Hours of work and family life
4.3.5 Working away from one's family
4.3.7 Underutilization of accrued annual leave
4.4 Labor-force participation
Part III Processing labor through Japan's labor markets
5 Change and challenge in the labor market
5.2 The overall dimensions of the labor market
5.4 Structural change and insecurity
5.5 Deregulation of the labor market
5.6 Looking to the future
6 Segmentation of the labor market
6.1 Employment status, firm size, and labor market segmentation
6.2 The market for new graduates
6.3 The market among foreign firms
6.4 The labor market for women
6.5 The market for foreign workers
6.6 The future of Japan's segmented labor markets
Part IV The broader social policy context for understanding choice at work in Japan
7 From labor policy to social policy: a framework for understanding labor process in Japan at the national level
7.1 Approaching labor policy in Japan
7.3 From labor policy to social policy as a framework for understanding the organization of work in Japan
7.4 Social class, labor market segmentation and inequality
7.4.1 Economic inequality
7.4.3 Education as a conduit for inheritance
7.5 Employment creation and employment policy
7.6 The legal framework at the meso level
8 Social security and safety nets
8.1 Social security (shakai hoken): income protection for workers
8.2 Income support schemes
8.2.1 The minimum wage system
8.2.2 Unemployment insurance
8.4 The national health system for workers
8.5 Social security, working conditions, and civil society
Part V The power relations shaping the organization of work in Japan
9 The state of the union movement in Japan
9.1 Labor and management as a power relationship
9.2 Declining unionization rates and the Japanese labor movement within the global setting
9.3 The structure of the union movement in postwar Japan
9.3.2 Industrial federations and the move to unify the national centers
9.3.3 The enterprise union
9.4 Structural change and the social framework
9.5 Fluctuations in the political influence of the union movement
9.6 The enterprise union and growing diversity of needs among its members
9.7 Toward new forms of unionism in Japan
9.7.2 Unions for managers
9.8 Toward a more ambivalent appraisal of enterprise unionism
9.9 Future directions for the union movement in Japan
10 Management organizations and the interests of employers
10.1 The sparse literature on management organizations in Japan
10.2 Toward a sociology of management
10.3 Enterprise groupings and the vertical integration of management
10.4 Management organizations and the horizontal integration of management at the national level
10.5 Networked families and the keibatsu
10.6 Management in Japan's smaller firms and the Shoko Kaigisho
10.7 Nikkeiren's half century
10.8 The newly formed Japan Business Federation
10.9 The future for management associations
11 The future of work in Japan
11.1 The end of the model
11.2 The ongoing crisis of inequality
11.3 The policy framework
11.4 The end of the sarariiman and established employment practices?
11.5 The future of work in Japan
A Sociology of Work in Japan
( Contemporary Japanese Society )
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