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Andrew Gordon,The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xi + 296 pp. $39.95 cloth; $18.95 paper; William M. Tsutsui,Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi + 296 pp. $42.50 cloth; $21.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2003

J. Victor Koschmann
J. Victor Koschmann
Affiliation:
Cornell University
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Extract

Complementary studies by Andrew Gordon and William M. Tsutsui of rationalization and control in the twentieth-century Japanese industrial workplace clarify the shifting stances of both workers and managers and demystify the origins and characteristics of “Japanese management.”

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 64 , October 2003 , pp. 192 - 195
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© 2003 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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