Lost in transition : youth, work, and instability in postindustrial Japan / Mary C. Brinton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinton, Mary C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Employment--Japan.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The lost generation

The historical roots of Japanese school-work institutions

The importance of Ba, the erosion of Ba

Unraveling school-employer relationships

Networks of advantage and disadvantage for new graduates

Narratives of the new mobility

The future of the lost generation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-85154-5

1-107-21530-7

1-282-81858-9

9786612818585

0-511-76274-7

0-511-90846-6

0-511-90716-8

0-511-90996-9

OCLC:

670411192