1st Edition
Law, Labour and Society in Japan From Repression to Reluctant Recognition
By Anthony Woodiwiss
Copyright 1992
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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As Japanese companies establish overseas production facilities at an ever more repid pace, it is increasingly important for people in the host countries to understand the preconceptions upon which the Japanese approach to industrial relations is based. This book traces the development of Japanese labour law and shows how labour law has been related to the prevailing social, economic and political circumstances.
Introduction; Part 1 Prewar Society and the Repression of Labour; Chapter 1 Early Meiji Society and the Absence of Labour Law; Chapter 2 Constitutional Japan and the Impossibility of Labour Law; Part 2 Postwar Society and the Reluctant Recognition of Labour; Chapter 3 From Democratism toKigyoshugi; Chapter 4 Reform and Continuity in Labour Law; Chapter 5 The Case Law of Reluctant Recognition; Chapter 6 Industrial Relations, Class Structure and the Significance of Reluctant Recognition; Conclusion;
Biography
Anthony Woodiwiss
