Reworking Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reworking Japan write by Nana Okura Gagné. This book was released on 2021-01-15. Reworking Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan's corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of individual employees. With Japan's remarkable economic growth since the 1950s, the lifestyles and life courses of "salarymen" came to embody the "New Middle Class" family ideal. However, the nearly three decades of economic stagnation and reforms since the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s has intensified corporate retrenchment under the banner of neoliberal restructuring and brought new challenges to employees and their previously protected livelihoods. In a sweeping appraisal of recent history, Gagné demonstrates how economic restructuring has reshaped Japanese corporations, workers, and ideals, as well as how Japanese companies and employees have resisted and actively responded to such changes. Gagné explores Japan's fraught and problematic transition from the postwar ideology of "companyism" to the emergent ideology of neoliberalism and the subsequent large-scale economic restructuring. By juxtaposing Japan's economic transformation with an ethnography of work and play, and individual life histories, Gagné goes beyond the abstract to explore the human dimension of the neoliberal reforms that have impacted the nation's corporate governance, socioeconomic class, workers' subjectivities, and family relations. Reworking Japan, with its firsthand analysis of how the supposedly hegemonic neoliberal regime does not completely transform existing cultural frames and social relations, will shake up preconceived ideas about Japanese men and the social effects of neoliberalism.
Reworking Race
Reworking Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reworking Race write by Moon-Kie Jung. This book was released on 2010-02-26. Reworking Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift were tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and dock workers who challenged their powerful employers by joining the left-led International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union. In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched racial divisions and successfully mobilized a mass working-class movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics. Instead, the movement "reworked race" by incorporating and rearticulating racial meanings and practices into a new ideology of class. Through its groundbreaking historical analysis, Reworking Race radically rethinks interracial politics in theory and practice.
Native and Newcomer
Native and Newcomer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native and Newcomer write by Jennifer Robertson. This book was released on 1991-09-03. Native and Newcomer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an “authentic” Japanese community.
Americanization and Its Limits
Americanization and Its Limits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Americanization and Its Limits write by Jonathan Zeitlin. This book was released on 2004. Americanization and Its Limits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after World War II. The contributors analyze the creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions, and in creating hybrid forms combining foreign and indigenous practices in unforeseen, yet remarkably competitive ways.
Reworking the World
Reworking the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reworking the World write by Jane Marceau. This book was released on 2011-07-22. Reworking the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
