Suchergebnisse

1: Introduction: Standing in a Place, Imagining a Space -- 2: Contextualizing Traveling Theory -- 3: Inside of the Place of Interpretation -- 4: Analytical Framework -- 5: Identifying the Site of Creation -- 6: The Importation of Geopolitics into Japan -- 7: Japanese Geopolitics -- 8: Conclusion: A Successful Journey?

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Moral Imaginations of Becoming One -- Chapter 1. A History of the Nonreligious -- Chapter 2. The Politics of "Shinto" Environmentalism -- Chapter 3. Making a Universal Furusato (Homeplace) -- Chapter 4. Muddy Labor -- Chapter 5. Being Like Family -- Chapter 6. Discipline as Care -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author

In the past two decades, China has experienced rapid industrial and economic growth. This fascinating book explores the unique Chinese business strategy of vigorous market entry and low prices, which has been the key feature of this accelerated industrial growth

"Japan and Italy achieved strong economic growth in the 1960s, but their responses to the oil crises and their economic performance in the 1980s were quite different. Both countries went on to encounter severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively, despite the smaller economic resources available to them under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation after the end of the Cold War. This book seeks to explain the differences in labour market deregulation policies between Japan and Italy, despite the fact that the two countries share a number of similar political, social, and labour market (if not cultural) characteristics. Uniquely, it takes a political, rather than economic or sociological perspective to provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the processes of labour market deregulation in the two countries. The precarious working conditions of an increasing number of non-regular workers has become a prominent social issue in many industrialised countries including Japan and Italy, but the level of the protection for these workers depends on a country's policies. This book provides a useful perspective for understanding the root causes of this phenomenon, such as the diffusion of 'neoliberal' ideas aimed at promoting labour-market flexibility under globalisation, and demonstrates that there is still room for politics to decide the extent of deregulation and maintain worker protection from management offensives even in an era of globalisation"--

"Japan and Italy achieved strong economic growth in the 1960s, but their responses to the oil crises and their economic performance in the 1980s were quite different. Both countries went on to encounter severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively, despite the smaller economic resources available to them under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation after the end of the Cold War. This book seeks to explain the differences in labour market deregulation policies between Japan and Italy, despite the fact that the two countries share a number of similar political, social, and labour market (if not cultural) characteristics. Uniquely, it takes a political, rather than economic or sociological perspective to provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the processes of labour market deregulation in the two countries. The precarious working conditions of an increasing number of non-regular workers has become a prominent social issue in many industrialised countries including Japan and Italy, but the level of the protection for these workers depends on a country's policies. This book provides a useful perspective for understanding the root causes of this phenomenon, such as the diffusion of 'neoliberal' ideas aimed at promoting labour-market flexibility under globalisation, and demonstrates that there is still room for politics to decide the extent of deregulation and maintain worker protection from management offensives even in an era of globalisation"--