Lost in transition : youth, work, and instability in postindustrial Japan.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. Description: xix, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521126007DDC classification: 331.347 BRI Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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331.109 MAT Perspectives on work, employment and society in Japan. | 331.120 REB The Japanese employment system : | 331.34 GEN A nagging sense of job insecurity: | 331.347 BRI Lost in transition : | 331.409 ROS. The political economy of Japan's low fertility. | 332.03DDC English-dzongkha financial terminology. | 332.024 KIY Be rich and happy : |
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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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