ABSTRACT
During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of ‘internationalizing.’ At the same time, Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people ‘Japanese-style industrial relations’ came to mean the ‘three sacred treasures’: lifetime employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism. During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of ‘internationalizing.’ At the same time, Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people ‘Japanese-style industrial relations’ came to mean the ‘three sacred treasures’: lifetime employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|45 pages
A Theoretical Starting Point
part Two|189 pages
The Limitations of the Enterprise Union: The Dynamics of Atrophy
part Three|168 pages
Unions on the Fringe and the Potential of the Enterprise Union
part Four|20 pages
The Future of the Enterprise Union