This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan. The author challenges the principal interpretations of how the economy functions revealing a darker side of Japanese capitalism in his examination of the roles played by class power, manipulation and mystification.
Author(s): John Crump
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 192
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 12
The nature of Japanese capitalism: perceptions and reality......Page 14
Japan's bosses in 1945: knocked down but not knocked out......Page 26
We're all workers now: ideological and organizational defence (1945 7)......Page 38
Counter-attack: teaching the workers who is boss (1948 60)......Page 49
Simultaneously applying the accelerator and the brake: high speed growth and the attempt to rein in wages (1961 73)......Page 91
Seizing the opportunity: turning the oil shock to the bosses' advantage (1974 80)......Page 113
No room for doubt: Japan in a class of its own (1981 91)......Page 131
Economic downturn and its consequences: labour quiescence and Nikkeiren's extinction (1992 2002)......Page 150
Conclusions: Nikkeiren and Japanese capitalism......Page 170
Select bibliography......Page 180
Index......Page 188
