LEADER 05293nam 22004693 450 001 9911056715503321 005 20260216160757.0 010 $a1-04-083044-7 010 $a1-04-083040-4 010 $a1-003-70196-5 035 $a(CKB)44992410600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32515669 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32515669 035 $a(OCoLC)1573151622 035 $a(EXLCZ)9944992410600041 100 $a20260207d2026 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrecariousness in High-Growth Economies $eComparing Labor in Contemporary China and in Postwar Japan and France 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cTaylor & Francis Group,$d2026. 210 4$dİ2026. 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 225 1 $aHistories of Everyday Life Around the World Series 311 08$a90-485-5917-0 327 $aCover -- 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. 327 $aHighlighting 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. 327 $aThe End of a High?Growth Employment Regime: A New Comparison -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book is the culmination of advanced historical and sociological fieldwork in China, Japan and France. 410 0$aHistories of Everyday Life Around the World Series 701 $aGuiheux$b Gilles$0864814 701 $aThomann$b Bernard$01284715 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911056715503321 996 $aPrecariousness in High-Growth Economies$94543939 997 $aUNINA