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ISBN: 9780801432859 | 0801432855
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/1/1997

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TABLES

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xiii

(2)

ABBREVIATIONS

1 Introduction

(36)

Lean Production: The Issues

(2)

Lean Production and Industrial Relations

(7)

History: Critical and Comparative Approaches

(12)

A Specific Comparative Framework

(7)

Case Studies

(4)

2 Testing the Limits: Worker's Challenge (1945-1948)

(30)

Revolution from the Top

(4)

Revolution in Labor Relations

(10)

Labor's Achievements

(7)

Shift in Alignments

(9)

3 The Japan-U.S. Business Alliance: Capital Retaliates (1948-1951)

(31)

Public Sector Attacked

(3)

The Employer Offensive (1948-1950)

(12)

The Effects on the Labor Movement

(5)

The Ironies of Anticommunism

(10)

4 Forms and Substance of Labor-Management Relations (1951-1955)

(29)

Nikkeiren and the Managerial Arena

100

(10)

Resurgent Unionism

110

(11)

Sohyo: Splits and Shunto

121

(6)

5 Institutions Emerge: Tensions, Limits, and Challenges (1955-1959)

127

(34)

Signs and Sources of Conflict

128

(7)

New Standards in Industrial Relations

135

(11)

Labor Market Segmentation

146

(4)

Contesting Visions

150

(11)

6 Lean Production and the Quality Movement: Suzuki and Toyota

161

(30)

The Suzuki Regime

162

(12)

Lean Production: Toyota

174

(8)

The Quality Control Movement and Taylorism

189

(9)

7 Miike 1960: The Limits of Coercion

191

(28)

Prelude to Confrontation: Production Politics and the Energy Crisis

192

(9)

Phase One: Isolation and Division

201

(5)

Phase Two: Breakaway Union

206

(3)

Phase Three: Nationwide Mobilization

209

(4)

Phase Four: Summer Showdown

213

(6)

8 High-Speed Growth and Unequal Development

219

(40)

Uneven Development: Ascent of the Automobile Industry

223

(8)

Uneven Development: The Decline of Coal

231

(10)

The Public Sector: Moriguchi City

241

(8)

Hegemony and High-Speed Growth

249

(10)

9 Conclusion

259

(36)

Case Studies: Variations in Workplace Regimes

261

(5)

Postwar History: Conflict and Compromise

266

(7)

Labor and Postwar Industrial Relations

273

(14)

Lean Production

287

(8)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

295

(12)

INDEX

307

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