Labor market formation during high-growth period in China and Japan

Edited by:

Bernard Thomann, University of Sorbonne - National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France

Gilles Guiheux, Paris Diderot University, France

Organizing rural-urban migration of young workers: roles of labor market institutions in postwar Japan

The Japanese economy’s industrial and occupational structure changed drastically during the high growth period. These structural changes were strongly influenced by the flow of junior high school graduates fro...

Authors: Shinji Sugayama

Citation: Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2019 4:2

Content type: Original article Published on: 15 March 2019
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Market control: understanding the China's construction industry

Research on the labor process was initiated by the American economist Harry Braverman in the 1970s. This theory has been the main departure point for sociological research on labor issues in China. Since the b...

Authors: Wei Zhao

Citation: Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2018 3:15

Content type: Original article Published on: 12 November 2018
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Gendered labour regimes: on the organizing of domestic workers in urban China

The development of China domestic services sector relies on a gendered labour regime that is also at the basis of the country rapid economic growth. Domestic workers face many obstacles at defending their righ...

Authors: Xin Tong

Citation: Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2018 3:14

Content type: Original article Published on: 6 November 2018
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Rationalization, working conditions and living standards in postwar Japanese coalmining communities

After 1945, unionization, the introduction of a new wage system, a huge effort by experts to understand the social and biological lives of miners and their families, the introduction of a new form of solidarit...

Authors: Bernard Thomann

Citation: Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2018 3:13

Content type: Original article Published on: 12 October 2018
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Transformation of the company system and birth of the “white-collar” miner: the case of progressive company Taiheiyo Coalmine during the period of economic growth in Japan

Following the postwar reconstruction period, Japan enjoyed rapid economic growth from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. During those years, Japanese companies, mainly manufacturers, established the Japanese-styl...

Authors: Naoko Shimazaki

Citation: Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2018 3:9

Content type: Original Article Published on: 17 August 2018
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The ethos of Chinese capitalism: lessons from the career paths of Shanghai white-collar workers

This paper considers the issue of labor and labor regimes in China from a micro angle. It aims at identifying how individuals in today’s China relate to work and labor after the « thirty glorious years » of bo...

Authors: Gilles Guiheux

Citation: Asian Journal of German and European Studies 2018 3:8

Content type: Original article Published on: 16 July 2018
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Labor market formation during high-growth period in China and Japan

Organizing rural-urban migration of young workers: roles of labor market institutions in postwar Japan

Market control: understanding the China's construction industry

Gendered labour regimes: on the organizing of domestic workers in urban China

Rationalization, working conditions and living standards in postwar Japanese coalmining communities

Transformation of the company system and birth of the “white-collar” miner: the case of progressive company Taiheiyo Coalmine during the period of economic growth in Japan

The ethos of Chinese capitalism: lessons from the career paths of Shanghai white-collar workers