05293nam 22004693 450 991105671550332120260216160757.01-04-083044-71-04-083040-41-003-70196-5(CKB)44992410600041(MiAaPQ)EBC32515669(Au-PeEL)EBL32515669(OCoLC)1573151622(EXLCZ)994499241060004120260207d2026 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrecariousness in High-Growth Economies Comparing Labor in Contemporary China and in Postwar Japan and France1st ed.Oxford :Taylor & Francis Group,2026.©2026.1 online resource (242 pages)Histories of Everyday Life Around the World Series90-485-5917-0 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.This book is the culmination of advanced historical and sociological fieldwork in China, Japan and France.Histories of Everyday Life Around the World SeriesGuiheux Gilles864814Thomann Bernard1284715MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911056715503321Precariousness in High-Growth Economies4543939UNINA