Work and Occupations articles from February 1997

Work and Occupations archives from February 1997

Dynamics of Asian workplaces.(Special Issue: Dynamics of Asian Workplaces)
February 1, 1997... This essay reviews the highlights of five individual papers written independently for the special issue on East Asian dynamism of workplaces, raising the question of what are the factors that enabled the countries in the region to attain a...

How permanent was permanent employment? Patterns of organizational mobility in Japan, 1916-1975.(Special Issue: Dynamics of Asian Workplaces)
February 1, 1997... Using work histories in three Japanese social stratification and mobility surveys, we examined assertions about permanent employment. We measured its extent and estimated the number of employers typical employees would have during their...

The transformation of the Japanese employment system.(Special Issue: Dynamics of Asian Workplaces)
February 1, 1997... The 1990s have witnessed significant change in the Japanese employment system and in the work organization of Japanese firms. This article gives a broad overview of the changes taking place in Japanese employment and compensation practice,...

Where guanxi matters: regional demography and guanxi in the Chinese context.(Special Issue: Dynamics of Asian Workplaces)
February 1, 1997... This article explores the indigenous concept of guanxi and its applications in the Chinese context. Guanxi is defined as the existence of direct particularistic ties between two or more individuals. We relate this concept to the idea of...

Cultural values and work attitudes of Korean industrial workers in comparison with those of the United States and Japan.(Special Issue: Dynamics of Asian Workplaces)
February 1, 1997... The uniqueness of Korean work attitudes is described with a survey of 1,288 blue-collar and white-collar workers in the 10 largest Korean conglomerate business firm. Compared to the Lincoln-Kalleberg survey results for Japanese and U.S....

Labor and post-Fordist industrial restructuring in East and Southeast Asia.(Special Issue: Dynamics of Asian Workplaces)
February 1, 1997... By a variety of measures, East Asian trade unionism remains numerically weak and politically ineffectual despite continuing industrial deepening in the region. Although political explanations go some distance in explaining this weakness, the...

Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience.
February 1, 1997... By Christena L. Turner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 281 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Since James C. Abegglen first wrote about Japanese employment systems and labor relations for a Western audience in The Japanese Factory...

White-Collar Blues: Management Loyalties in an Age of Corporate Restructuring.
February 1, 1997... By Charles Heckscher. New York: Basic Books, 1995, 224 pp. $23.00 (cloth); $14.00 (paper). For several years the public's attention has been caught by wave after wave of corporate restructuring and the displacement of hundreds of...

Gender in Practice: A Study of Lawyers' Lives.
February 1, 1997... By John Hagan and Fiona Kay. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 233 pp. $29.95 (cloth). The legal profession is in a state of rapid change on many fronts. A number of books recently have been published analyzing and lamenting the...

Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms.
February 1, 1997... By Jennifer Pierce. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, 265 pp. $48 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). The legal profession is in a state of rapid change on many fronts. A number of books recently have been published analyzing and...