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accommodation
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blue collar workers
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class consciousness
community
democracy
demonstrations
economy
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ethnography
factories
factory workers
japan
japanese history
japanese industry
japanese labor history
japanese society
japanese unions
labor
labor disputes
labor movements
labor practices
labor relations
political action
protest
protests
radical labor protest
resistance
social relations
solidarity
union
union meetings
work
worker compliance
worker cooperation
worker dignity
Product details
- ISBN 9780520219618
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their lives and their culture during a time of conflict and instability. What emerges is a sensitive portrait of how workers grapple with a slowed economy and the contradictions of Japanese industry in the late postwar era. The ways that they think and feel about accommodation, resistance, and protest raise essential questions about the transformation of labor practices and limits of worker cooperation and compliance.
Christena L. Turner, an anthropologist, is Associate Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
