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The state and labor in modern Japan
Garon, Sheldon M.
Year: c1987.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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table of contents
Frontmatter
List of Tables
Note on Japanese Names
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Origins of Japanese Social Policy, 1868-1918
The Workers
State and Business: Factory Legislation as Industrial Policy
The "Social Question" and Social Policy
Policies toward Organized Labor
Parties and Social Policy
2. A Crisis in Relations between Labor and Capital, 1918-22
The Labor Question
Capitalists Propose Reforms
The Seiyukai Government and the Modernization of "Harmony"
The Kensekai and the Social Foundations of Interwar Reform
The Liberal Vision
Labor Estranged, 1920-22
3. The Social Bureaucrats and the Integration of Labor, 1918-27
From Economic to Social Bureaucrats
Toward a New Labor Policy
Reshaping the Labor Movement
The Impact on Labor and Management, 1924-28
4. The Politics of Social Policy, 1924-29
"A Universal Suffrage for Industry": The Labor Union Bills of 1926 and 1927
Reinterpreting the Peace Preservation Law
Minseito and Seiyukai: Divergent Responses to Universal Manhood Suffrage
The Bureaucrats Enter Politics
Social Policy or Antisocialism?: The Parliamentary Debate, 1928-29
5. The Limits of Liberal Reform, 1929-31
Dynamic Beginnings
The Employers' Offensive
The "Social Bureau Draft"
Parliamentary Debacle
The Death of Liberal Social Policy
6. The Statist Solution, 1931-45
Labor's Turn to the State
Search for a New Labor Policy, 1931-36
Unions Bypassed: The Industrial Patriotic Movement, 1936-40
The Failure of State Corporatism, 1940-45
Epilogue: Legacies for Postwar Japan
Persistence of the Social Bureaucrats
The Occupation Reforms
The "Reverse Course" and Japanese History
Toward Corporatism with Labor?
Appendix 1: Industrial Strikes, 1897-1941
Appendix 2: Cabinets and Ministers Related to Labor Policy, 1908-32
Appendix 3: Strike-related Arrests under Article 17 of the Police Regulations and Other Charges, 1914-26
Appendix 4: Occupational Background of the Nonproletarian Parties, Lower House Representatives, 1920-30
Appendix 5: An Outline of Labor Union Bills
Appendix 6: Labor Unions and Union Membership, 1918-41
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Title: The state and labor in modern Japan : Sheldon Garon.
Author: Garon, Sheldon M
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Garon, Sheldon M
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1987.
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Subject Headings: • Industrial relations -- Government policy -- Japan -- History
• Industrial relations -- Japan -- History
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