Reworking Japan : changing men at work and play under neoliberalism / Nana Okura Gagné.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gagné, Nana Okura, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Japan--Social conditions.

Men.

Masculinity--Japan.

Masculinity.

Men--Japan--Identity.

Corporate culture--Japan.

Corporate culture.

Leisure--Social aspects--Japan.

Leisure.

Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Reworking Japan' examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms in Japan have reshaped the nation's corporate ideologies, gender ideologies, and subjectivities of individual employees. With Japan's remarkable economic growth since the 1950s, the lifestyles and life courses of 'salarymen' came to embody the 'New Middle Class' family ideal. As Nana Okura Gagné demonstrates, however, the nearly three decades of economic stagnation since the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s has tarnished this positive image of salarymen.

Contents:

Historicizing Salarymen and Japanese Capitalism

Working In and Working On Neoliberalism

The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business

Working Hard at Having Fun through Hobbies and Community

Escaping the Corporate Shackles

Navigating the Waves of Work and Life

Weathering the Storms of Corporate Restructuring.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9781501753046

1501753045

OCLC:

1150848303