Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy that owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus The book drawson examples across Japanese industry, but focuses in depth on iron and steel--an industry at the одемщ center of the country's economic recovery and high-speed growth Beginning with the Occupation reforms and their influence on the workplace, Gordon shows howworking people had to compromise institutions of self-determination in pursuit of economic affluence He also rebuts hasty predictions that Japanese industrial relations are about to be dramatically transformed in the American free-market image "This isa major achievement, and confirms Andrew Gordon's place as a truly outstanding scholar of Japanese labor history Those wishing to understand the post-war remaking of Japan's political economy and society will find much of value in this book " --D H Whittaker, Business History "A pathbreaking work [It] is also an uncommonly timely book, offering historical perspectives on many dimensions of Japan's tortured course in the 1990s A compelling, illuminating study that deserves the greatest possible readership " --William M Tsutsui, Monumenta Nipponica.  ПредлагаемаяISBN 0674007069.