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Mary C. Brinton - Lost in Transition, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Lost in Transition

Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan

Av Mary C. Brinton

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Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of employment. The much-admired system of moving young people smoothly from school to work has frayed. The book argues that these changes in the very fabric of Japanese postwar institutions have loosened young people's attachment to school as the launching pad into the world of work and loosened their attachment to the workplace as a source of identity and security. The implications for the future of Japanese society - and the fault lines within it - loom large.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-11-08
  • Mått: 155 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 510 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 228
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521199148
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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.

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'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

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