Lost in Transition : Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
052119914X
ISBN-13
9780521199148
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 8th, 2010
Print length
228 Pages
Weight
506 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.70 x 2.10 cms
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This book considers the issues facing contemporary Japan as it struggles to adapt its employment system to the global economy. The book describes how young Japanese workers have lost out to the entrenched interests of older workers and are struggling to gain a sense of identity and security.
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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