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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496147703321

Autore

Turner Christena L. <1949->

Titolo

Japanese Workers in Protest : An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience / / Christena L. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1995]

©1995

ISBN

0-520-92332-4

0-585-10840-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 268 p. )

Disciplina

331.880952

Soggetti

Labor unions - Japan

Working class - Japan

Labor movement - Japan

Class consciousness - Japan

Industrial relations - Japan

Japan Social conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names -- CHAPTER I. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Learning to Protest -- CHAPTER 3. Playing with Social Relations -- CHAPTER 4. The Phoenix Falters -- CHAPTER 5. Routinizing an Ideal -- CHAPTER 6. Arousing Thoughts, Persuasive Actions -- CHAPTER 7. Working as Protest -- CHAPTER 8. Endings -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.