Japanese workers and the struggle for power, 1945-1947 / Joe Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Joe, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations--Japan--History--20th century.

Industrial relations.

Labor unions--Japan--History--20th century.

Labor unions.

Labor--Japan--Political activity--History--20th century.

Labor.

Labor movement--Japan--Political activity--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Working class--Japan--Political activity--History--20th century.

Working class.

History.

Japan.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

xx, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Summary:

Traditional Western accounts of postwar Japan's democratization have stressed the apparent ease and inevitability of that process. The resulting historical perspective, Joe Moore contends, seriously distorts reality. Drawing on essential and unmined data, including national archive records of the early Occupation, Moore unmasks an agitated, divided, and potentially explosive Japan in the years immediately following World War II.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Wisconsin)

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 281-296.

ISBN:

0299093204 :

OCLC:

9393333