The Maturation of Society and Labor-Management Relations

Abstract

Among many topics of discussion dealing with Japan's labor-management relations that have been taken up during the years from the Oil Shock in 1973 to the present, the following three received a great deal of attention, namely, (1) how the deceleration of economic growth would affect them; (2) how workers' participation in management would affect them; and (3) how aging and more-educated labor would affect them. The third topic has attracted the most attention in the last year or two.