Lost in Transition ：Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan

Publication subTitle ：Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan

Author： Mary C. Brinton  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9780511904417

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521199148

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： 社会学

Language： ENG

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Lost in Transition

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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.

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Preface

Lost in Transition: A Society and a Generation

Acknowledgments

1 The Lost Generation

SHAKAIJIN as KAISHAIN

FURITA and “Parasite Singles”

Institutional Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, and Social Generations

Life Course Patterns in the High Economic-Growth Period: The Postwar Family System

The Emergence of New Employment Patterns Among the Young

The New Economic Marginalization of Young Men

2 The Historical Roots of Japanese School-Work Institutions

The Establishment of School-Work Institutions in Postwar Japan

Finding a Job: Personal and Institutional Social Capital

Japanese Employers’ Evaluation of Institutional Social Capital

3 The Importance of Ba, the Erosion of Ba

The Economic Importance of BA: Wages

The Process of Labor Market Entry: Change Across Social Generations

The View from Teachers: Struggling to Place Graduates

High Schools’ Increasing Irrelevance

Employers’ Role

4 Unraveling School-Employer Relationships

From Institutional Equilibrium to Disequilibrium in Japan’s Lost Decade

The Decline of School-Employer Ties

Resuscitating School-Employer Ties?

5 Networks of Advantage and Disadvantage for New Graduates

Patterns of Idleness and the High School-Work Transition

Where Do New High School Graduates Go?

Networks of Disadvantage

6 Narratives of the New Mobility

Satoshi: A Traditional Elite Story with a Twist

The Broader View: Mobility Patterns in the Lost Generation

Koichi: From a Charmed Life to a Story of Near-Defeat

Hideki: With a Little Help from His Friends (and Weak Ties)

7 The Future of the Lost Generation

Implications of Segmented Versus Open Labor Markets for New Graduates

Beyond the Japanese Case?

Implications for the Future of Japan’s Lost Generation

Challenges for the Lost Generation

References

Index

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