Precariousness in High-Growth Economies : Comparing Labor in Contemporary China and in Postwar Japan and France

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911056715503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2026; ©2026
• ISBN: 1-04-083044-7; 1-04-083040-4; 1-003-70196-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Collana: Histories of Everyday Life Around the World Series
• Altri autori (Persone): GuiheuxGilles; ThomannBernard
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Economic Growth and the Transformation of Social Conditions: Overview -- The Limits of the Supposedly Universal Models of Stable Employment -- A Long‑Range Perspective for a Comparative, Interconnected Approach -- A Transversal Programme -- Chapters Outline -- 1 Payslips: Personal Records to Explore Labor Conditions -- Birth, Material Form, and Substance of the Payslip -- Disparate Keeping of Records in Heterogeneous Formats -- An Exploratory History of the Payslip -- Payslip Complexity and Legibility -- An Increasingly Complicated Document -- The Debate on Payslip Legibility -- A Document that Speaks Volumes -- Management‑Labour Relations -- Diversity of Wage Forms -- Conclusion -- 2 The Working‑Class Household Economy: Frugality, Discipline, and Strategies -- Wages Increase in a Context of Economic Growth -- Income and Expenditure Over the Course of a Working Life -- Objects Symptomatic of an Improvement in Materialliving Conditions -- Adapting One's Needs to One's Means -- Female Workers in the Aube Hosiery Industry -- Japanese Miners -- ; Working‑Class Households in Jiaxing -- Making Ends Meet -- Consumption Paid for by the Company -- Working on the Side -- The Use of Loans -- Strict Accounting -- Planning for the Future -- Income, Expenditure, and Relational Networks -- Savings -- Trade‑Offs -- Conclusion -- 3 Finding a Voice: Worker's Demands for Recognition -- Industrial Action and Public Appeals -- The "All‑out War" of the Miike Strike -- The "Policy of Complaining" of the 1963 Strike in French Mines -- "Rightful Resistance" in Chinese Mines -- Looking Beyond Male Workers at Large Companies -- Strikes, Women, and Wages -- Small Mines Labor Condition and Migrant Workers' Rights.; Highlighting the Condition of Workers through Social Survey -- "See, Judge, Act" -- Employers' Social Surveys -- Guards of the Coalfields -- Sociological and Anthropological Scholarship on the Chinese workers' Condition -- Culture and the Workers' Cause -- Japanese Coalfields and Literature -- Chinese Migrant Writings -- Conclusion -- 4 A Regulated Class Struggle? Minimum Wage Policiesin a Growth Regime -- Types of Social Democracy and Determining Wage Standards -- The Power and Role of Trade Unions in Joint Negotiating Arenasin Social Democratic Context -- From Joint Arenas to Tripartite Arenas: Taking Action at the Heart of the State/Working against the Democratic State? -- How do you Influence Wages in an Authoritarian Situation? -- Regulatory Contexts and Policies -- The Thirty‑Year Post‑War Boom and the Introduction of Wage Standards -- Sharing the Fruits of Growth and Raising Workers' Living Standards -- Blinds Spots and Dead Ends -- Did Early Twenty‑First Century China Follow the Regulatory Path of 30‑Year Post‑War Boom? -- Conclusion -- 5 In the Name of Human Value. Religion and Ethics in the Business World -- Christian Organizations and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century (France and Japan) -- A Long History of Christian Communities in France and Japan -- Revival of the Reformist Tradition as of the 1940s -- Religion and Business Ethics During the Postwar Boom (France and Japan) -- Religion and Business Ethics in Japan -- Christian Entrepreneurs in Northern France Seeking a Third Way -- Confucian Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China -- Building a Chinese Form of Capitalism -- Spaces for Dialogue and Learning -- Proselytizing in Companies -- Conclusion -- General Conclusion -- Results -- Social Protection and the Gender Issue -- Precarious Old Workers, Young Workers and Migrants as Engines of High Growth.; The End of a High‑Growth Employment Regime: A New Comparison -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the culmination of advanced historical and sociological fieldwork in China, Japan and France.