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Work and lifecourse in Japan

Title
Work and lifecourse in Japan / David W. Plath, editor ; with contributions by Samuel Coleman [and others].
Publication
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Plath, David W.
  • Coleman, Samuel, 1946-
Description
xii, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Essays on career patterns, labour mobility and related aspects of occupational sociology in Japan - discusses irregular promotions, lack of employment security, woman worker labour force participation and occupational structure trends 1960 to 1975; considers sex discrimination, conflicting obligations between family and occupations, links between marriage and promotions, pervasiveness and limited application of "lifetime employment", etc.; includes case studies. Diagrams, graphs and references.
Subject
  • Arbeit, ..
  • Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
  • Occupations > Japan
  • Occupations
  • Karriere
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Beruf
  • Soziologie
  • Arbeitnehmer
  • Lebenslauf
  • Arbeitsstrukturierung
  • Arbeit
  • career pattern
  • labour mobility
  • occupational sociology
  • promotion
  • employment security
  • women workers
  • labour force participation
  • occupational structure
  • trend
  • sex discrimination
  • conflict
  • family
  • occupation
  • marriage
  • case study
  • Career development > Japan
  • Work and family > Japan
  • Work > Social aspects > Japan
  • profil de carrière
  • mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre
  • sociologie du travail
  • sécurité de l'emploi
  • travailleuses
  • taux d'activité
  • structure de l'emploi
  • tendance
  • discrimination fondée sur le sexe
  • conflit
  • famille
  • profession
  • mariage
  • étude de cas
  • modelo de carrera
  • movilidad de la mano de obra
  • sociología ocupacional
  • ascenso
  • seguridad en el empleo
  • trabajadoras
  • tasa de actividad de mano de obra
  • estructura del empleo
  • tendencia
  • discriminación por razones de sexo
  • conflicto
  • familia
  • ocupación
  • matrimonio
  • estudio de casos
  • Japan
  • Japan
  • Japon
  • Japón
Genre/Form
  • graph.
  • reference.
  • graphique.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • gráfico.
  • referencia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Life is just a job resume? / David W. Plath -- Careers and mobility in Japan's labor markets / Solomon B. Levine -- Changing employment patterns of women / Karen C. Holden -- Aborted careers in a public corporation / Kenneth A. Skinner -- Shiranai Station / Paul H. Noguchi -- Intertwined careers in medical practice / Susan O. Long -- Where security begets security / Jack G. Lewis -- Cataclysm and career rebirth / Theodore F. Cook -- The office--way station or blind alley? / James McLendon -- The tempo of family formation / Samuel Coleman -- Where work and family are almost are almost one / Jill Kleinberg -- Timetables and the lifecourse in post-industrial society / Julius A. Roth.
ISBN
  • 0873957040
  • 9780873957045
  • 0873957059
  • 9780873957052
LCCN
82010481
OCLC
  • ocm08627114
  • 8627114
  • SCSB-87198
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library