Mary C. Brinton

Lost in Transition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521199148
• ISBN-10: 052119914X
• Artikelnr.: 30517643

Autorenporträt

Mary C. Brinton is Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She has also held professorships at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. She is the author of Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan, the editor of Women's Working Lives in East Asia, and the co-editor of The Declining Significance of Gender? Her work has appeared frequently in journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, and Sociology of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The lost generation
2. The historical roots of Japanese school-work institutions
3. The importance of ba, the erosion of ba
4. Unraveling school-employer relationships
5. Networks of advantage and disadvantage for new graduates
6. Narratives of the new mobility
7. The future of the lost generation.

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1. The lost generation; 2. The historical roots of Japanese school-work institutions; 3. The importance of ba, the erosion of ba; 4. Unraveling school-employer relationships; 5. Networks of advantage and disadvantage for new graduates; 6. Narratives of the new mobility; 7. The future of the lost generation.

Rezensionen

'Mary C. Brinton's Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan focuses on one of the most important social changes of the beginning of the 21st century in Japan ... Long envious of Japan's famed social stability and its assumed relation to economic success, the international community had been for the most part unaware of the highly orchestrated nature of this stability, including the complex relationships and political-economic contexts that made it possible. What the author of Lost in Transition brings to our attention in excellent quantitative and qualitative detail is how this system functioned and the effects upon the 'nonelite' student population most disadvantaged by its unraveling.' Andrea G. Arai, Journal of Sociology