Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers

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ISBN: 9780415172127 | 0415172128
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/9/1998

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By examining the lives of workers in a small Japanese factory, this text provides a valuable alternative view of life outside large corporations, in so doing demonstrating the diversity of the Japanese working-class.

List of illustrations

vii

(2)

Acknowledgements

(2)

Note on Japanese names

1 Japanese working class lives: problems and perspectives

(19)

Work and workers in Japan

(9)

Interpretive perspective

(6)

Methodology and organization

(2)

2 Getting there and getting in

(11)

Getting there

(1)

Getting in

(6)

A look back

(3)

3 Shintani Metals: company history

(25)

Shintani to 1983: experience and enterprise

(7)

The late 1980s: the problems of prosperity

(8)

The 1990s recession: bursting bubbles and beyond

(7)

Conclusion

(2)

4 Shintani Metals: organization, experience and relationships

(27)

Formal factory organization

(18)

The work experience

(3)

Informal social relationships

(5)

Conclusion

(1)

5 Paths to Shintani: school boys, working men

(22)

Introduction

(2)

Junior high graduates

(6)

High school graduates

(9)

Vocational school and university--graduates and drop outs

100

(3)

Conclusion

103

(2)

6 Paths to Shintani: factory girls, working women

105

(16)

Introduction

105

(4)

Factory girls and office ladies

109

(4)

Working mothers and wives

113

(5)

Conclusion

118

(3)

7 Paths from Shintani

121

(16)

Comings and goings

121

(3)

Going, going, gone

124

(7)

What next?

131

(2)

Room to move

133

(4)

8 After-Hours: sponsored leisure events

137

(18)

Introduction

137

(2)

Kinds of sponsored events

139

(4)

Interpretations

143

(9)

Conclusion: company size and corporate focus

152

(3)

9 After-Hours: nakama leisure events

155

(16)

The nature of nakama

155

(3)

Partners, places and patterns of play

158

(11)

Conclusion: of play and people in Japan

169

(2)

10 Private Time

171

(19)

Introduction

171

(1)

Family women and men

172

(3)

Private self

175

(13)

Conclusion

188

(2)

11 Conclusion: of contexts and connections

190

(4)

Notes

194

(9)

Bibliography

203

(16)

Name index

219

(3)

Subject index

222

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