Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan's High-Growth Era, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan Series
Coordonnateur : Takeda Haruhito
The first chapter focuses on the apparel industry's expanding market as it corresponded to changes in consumer behavior. Even as consumer life became more comfortable and abundant, consumers were becoming uneasy about the environmental deterioration associated with high growth. The second chapter examines how the Japanese government addressed emissions regulations while drawing on the lessons of America's experience with the same issue.
The change in industrial structure brought about by economic growth inevitably resulted in the decline of other industries. Chief among these was the coal-mining industry, which, with the onset of a full-scale energy revolution, lost its role as energy supplier owing to the import of cheap crude oil. The third chapter discusses the government's industrial policies as they addressed the coal industry's adjustment in the high-growth era, concluding that they reduced such problems as stagnation, unemployment, and local industrial decline. The adjustments in employment practices contributed positively to the gradual shift of labor from declining industries to growth industries. The fourth chapter investigates changes in labor management in the steel industry, which was one of the high-growth era's leading industries. This publication will serve as a valuable resource for those who are interested not only in the post-war history in Japan but also in high growth economies in recent East Asia.
Editor
Haruhito Takeda is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He obtained a Ph.D.in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1988. His main research field is the economic and business history of Japan. His publications include “Nihon Sandougyō shi” (A History of Copper Mines in Japan)(Univ. Press of Tokyo, 1987).
Introduces recent academic works on industrial policies during the high-growth era of postwar Japan (1950-80)
Makes recent academic works by Japanese scholars accessible to a widerreadership
Introduces recent academic works on the micro-economic performance of business firms
Date de parution : 06-2018
Ouvrage de 160 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 07-2016
Ouvrage de 160 p.
15.5x23.5 cm