British factory, Japanese factory;: The origins of national diversity in industrial relations,

Business & Money

Dore, Ronald

Economics

George Allen& Unwin Ltd

Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons (Japan Business and Economics Series)

This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those countries share the assumptions dominant today in Britain and America--that managers should be intent solely on creating shareholder value and that shareholders' financial logic alone should determine who buys what company on the stock exchange. That way efficiency (and hence global welfare) will be maximized. The Japanese and German advocates of full-bloodied market capitalism are not having it all their own way, however. In both countries there are articulate defenders of what they consider to be a better way of life, informed by a more human, more social-solidary, set of values. Dore traces the fascinating debates which ensue on corporate governance, on worker rights, on supplier relations, on cartels and anti-trust, on pensions and welfare. He alsoanalyses actual changes in economic behaviour-an essential means of sorting out a lot of the muddle and double-talk not just in the internal debates themselves, but even more in the foreign reporting of them. These accounts of the battle for the national soul in Japan and Germany constitute one of the finest contributions to the 'diversity of capitalism' debate. Dore's account should be read by anyone who is interested to know whether, for all the talk of globalization, that diversity is going to survive.

Oxford University Press

Ronald Dore places recent developments in Japan in the broader context of gradual changes in modern patterns of capitalism common to all industrial societies--a process that he labels marketization plus financialization. His central focus is on the tendency for shareholder value to be preached as the sole legitimate objective of corporate executives, against the traditional aligment of Japan on the productivist, employee-favoring side of the divide.

Not many foreigners have the chance to live in a Japanese village, certainly not foreigners who are sufficiently at home to do so as unobtrusively and intimately as the author of this book. Ronald Dore went to Shinohata twenty years ago when he was studying the land reform which broke the power of Japan's landlords. He went back many times thereafter to stay with friends. Now he has distilled his memories, field notes, diaries, and some recent forays with a tape recorder into a book which brings to life the village and its people, and vividly portrays the stunning transformation of Japanese village life. Shinohatais a story of extraordinary change from the traditional values and relationships to typically modern pursuits and aspirations that accompanied the post-war prosperity. Ronald Dore's gift for combining a sympathetic, and often humorous, response to unique individuals with the sociologist's ability to discern and analyze patterns make this an unusual and fascinating book.

SHINOHATA

History

Asia

Pantheon

Provides a thorough examination of vocational education and training in all parts of the education system, from primary education through to in-house training in companies and on the shop floor. This book should be of interest to students, lecturers, researchers and policy-makers in education; management/company/personnel training; manpower studies; industrial relations; Japanese studies personnel training; industrial relations; Japanese studies.

How the Japanese Learn to Work (Nissan/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)

Education & Reference

Routledge

The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products. In the first half of the book this comparison is pursued in systematic detail and clear illustration of the attitudes and assumptions which underlie what the author calls the ‘market-oriented’ system of Britain and the ‘organization-oriented’ system of Japan. One chapter shows how the employment institutions of the two countries fit into their political, family and educational institutions – an exercise in functionalist sociology which dominates t he later chapters and makes a major contribution to the discussion of development and of the ‘convergence’ of different systems.

British Factory Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations (Routledge Library Editions: Japan)

Reference

Japanese cultural life had reached a low ebb at the beginning of the Tokugawa period. The Japanese society which emerged when Tokugawa Ieyasu had completed the process of pacifying warring baronies was neither literary, nor hardly literate. The rulers were warriors and the people they ruled were largely illiterate. The Japan of 1868 was a very different society: practically every samurai was literate and it was a world in which books abounded. The transformation which had occurred in these two and a half centuries was an essential precondition for the success of the policy which the leaders of the Meiji Restoration were to adopt. An in-depth survey of the development and education during the period, this book remains one of the key analyses of the effects of Tokugawa educators and education on modern day Japan.   

Education in Tokugawa Japan, Vol. 33

The Japanese way of work is notoriously ‘different’. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? When originally published this was the first book to explore the real differences, through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products. In the first half of the book this comparison is pursued in systematic detail and clear illustration of the attitudes and assumptions which underlie what the author calls the ‘market-oriented’ system of Britain and the ‘organization-oriented’ system of Japan. One chapter shows how the employment institutions of the two countries fit into their political, family and educational institutions – an exercise in functionalist sociology which dominates t he later chapters and makes a major contribution to the discussion of development and of the ‘convergence’ of different systems.

British Factory Japanese Factory

British Factory, Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations,

University of California Press, c.1973

Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues

An account of motives and motivations behind Japan's accomplishments, this work emphasizes the role of a Confucian impetus.First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Stanford Univ Pr

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British factory, Japanese factory;: The origins of national diversity in industrial relations,

Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons (Japan Business and Economics Series)

Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons (Japan Business and Economics Series)

SHINOHATA

How the Japanese Learn to Work (Nissan/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)

British Factory Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations (Routledge Library Editions: Japan)

Education in Tokugawa Japan, Vol. 33

British Factory Japanese Factory

British Factory, Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations,

Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues