Japanese labour and management in transition: Diversity, flexibility and participation: Edited by Mari Sako and Hiroki Sato, Routledge (1977), 344 pp., £50.00 (hard), £14.99 (soft)

Abstract

Introduction: Forces for Homogenisation and Diversity in the Japanese Industrial Relations System, Mari Sako. Part 1: 1 Trends in Japanese Labour Markets, Yoshio Higuchi 2 Labour Law Issues in a Changing Labour Market - In Search of a New Support System, Kazuo Sugeno and Yasuo Suwa 3 Corporate Strategy and Human Resource Management, Takashi Kawakita 4 Human Resource Management Systems in Large Firms - The Case of White-Collar University Graduate Employees, Hiroki Sato 5 Women at Work, Akira Wakisaka 6 Japanese Management and Labour in Transition - Ageing Mothers, Atsuchi Seike 7 Internalisation of the Labour Market - Foreign Workers and Trainees, Koichiro Imano. Part 2: 8 Rengo and Policy Participation - Japanese Style Neo-Corporatism, Toru Shinoda 9 The Public Sector and Privatisation, Naoto Ohmi 10 Shunto - the Role of Employer and Union Coordination at the Industry and Inter-sectorial levels, Mari Sako 11 Business Diversification Strategy and Emlployment - the Case of Japanese Chemical Textile Industry, Michio Nitta 12 Worker Participation - Collective Bargaining and Joint Consultation, Keisuke Nakamura 13 New Unionism - Beyond Enterprise Unionism?, Hiroyuki Fujimura 14 Labour-Management Relations in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - Collective Voice Mechanisms for Workers in Non-Unionised Companies, Hiroki Sato.