Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2006
Keywords
Worker cooperatives, Women's worker collectives, Japan Worker's Cooperative Union
Abstract
The pace of Japan’s economy is picking up again after more than a decade of stasis. During this long period of economic stagnation, the many personnel practices favoring employees known by the rubric “lifetime employment” have been subjected to increased criticism by pro-investor, neo-liberal voices. Yet other less-well-amplified voices in Japan offer an alternative criticism of, and look for opportunity in, the changing status quo as well. In the last quarter of the 20th century efforts to create worker-owned and democratically governed businesses in Japan began to emerge with the support of a wide variety of economic actors -- among them labor unions and union organizers, consumer cooperatives, income-seeking housewives, the elderly, employees of small businesses, farmers and farm workers, employees of failing firms and maverick employees of large firms. And as worker owned and managed businesses have increased in size and number, their awareness of each other and their common interest in alternative ways to organize production has also grown.
Publication Title
the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Required Publisher's Statement
Published by The Asia-Pacific Journal.
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Bob-Marshall/1704/article.html
Recommended Citation
Marshall, Robert C., "Japan's Worker Co-operative Movement into the 21st Century" (2006). Anthropology Faculty and Staff Publications. 12.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/anthropology_facpubs/12
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Producer cooperatives--Japan--21st century
Geographic Coverage
Japan
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
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Language
English
Format
application/pdf
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