Post-Industrialization of Japan and the Fluidity of Youth Employment

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  • 日本的脱工業化と若年労働力の流動化
  • ニホンテキ ダツコウギョウカ ト ジャクネン ロウドウリョク ノ リュウドウカ カンリョウセイ ト コジンカ ノ ドウジ シンコウ ト イウ シテン カラ
  • Looking from the Simultaneity of Bureaucracy and Individualization
  • 「官僚制」と「個人化」の同時進行という視点から

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The aim of this paper is to examine the fluidity of youth employment and the tertiary industrialization that is part of international trade and the change in Japan's industrial policy. This process, known as “post-industrialization, ” occurred in every developed country; however, Japan contained the following unique characteristics : (a) a cruel division, known as “company-centricism, ” existed between employees inside/outside the companies; (b) the two Oil Crises had comparatively weak consequences in Japan because of the strong cooperation between capital and labor, so that the dominant position of existing large corporations did not collapse, as in the case of the United States and UK; (c) lower-class labor, which inevitably increases during the “post-industrialization” process, was supplied by the nation itself and not by immigrants. At that time, the increase in the fluidity of youth employment was explained by policymakers as a positive contribution to the national economy, although the same phenomenon is viewed as a symptom of economic crisis today.

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