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Book SynopsisDuring the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of internationalizing.' At the same time, Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people Japanese-style industrial relations' came to mean the three sacred treasures': lifetime employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism. During the 1980s many Japanese began to feel the pressures of internationalizing.' At the same time, Japanese-style industrial relations came to receive wide international attention. For most people Japanese-style industrial relations' came to mean the three sacred treasures': lifetime employment, seniority wages and enterprise unionism.
Table of ContentsCommon theories of the enterprise union; towards a new theory of the enterprise union; a history of labour disputes in postwar Japan; a history of labour-management relations on the shop floor; the establishment of the enterpise union - the 1952 Densan Dispute; the labour union at the shop floor under the system of joint labour-management consultations; the minority union; facilitating environments for the minority union; conditions promoting the minority union; the emergence of the new unions; the future of the enterprise union.
