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Managing "modernity" : work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Japan and Russia / Rudra Sil.
LIBRA HN727 .S575 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sil, Rudra, 1967-
- Series:
- Interests, identities, and institutions in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Japan.
- Social change.
- Postmodernism.
- Postmodernism--Social aspects.
- Japan--Economic conditions.
- Japan.
- Economic conditions.
- Social values--Japan.
- Social values.
- Postmodernism--Social aspects--Japan.
- Social change--Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.
- Social values--Russia (Federation).
- Postmodernism--Russia (Federation).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers--Japan and Russia--as a basis for an original theory of institution-building.
- Contents:
- Preface: "modernity" and social science, beyond universal history
- The problem, the argument, and the study
- Institutions of work in theoretical and historical context : sources of variation in the course of industrialization
- Work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Japan : prewar "traditionalism" to postwar "syncretism"
- Work, community, and authority in late-industrializing Russia : socialist revolution and the "scientific organization of labor"
- Comparisons and implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-466) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0472112228
- OCLC:
- 48383286
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