Divisions of Labor

Lonny E. Carlile

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2005

Divisions of Labor

Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement

Lonny E. Carlile

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824874605

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Divisions of Labor positions the ideological and organizational evolution of the Japanese labor movement within the larger historical currents that shaped and organized labor globally in the twentieth century. Interspersing detailed narratives of Japanese labor history with analyses of parallel developments in Western European and international labor movements, Lonny Carlile shows how world views and labor movement strategies were shared across national boundaries and shaped in similar ways in the industrialized West and East. Beyond this, he highlights how in both Western Europe and Japan issues that had divided labor since the 1920s were central to the Cold War, which kept labor movements at odds with themselves internally in systematically similar ways. His book suggests that, to the extent that the historical courses of labor movements diverged, this was as much a uh_product of differences in geopolitical location as any inherent cultural or nationally specific ideological tendency.

The volume’s approach brings to the fore an important new dimension to our existing understanding of post–World War II Japanese labor and political history by outlining the connection between the politics of Japanese labor and the structure and dynamics of global politics. In addition, by drawing out these parallels and similarities, it provides thought-provoking insights into twentieth-century labor movements in general. Divisions of Labor will be of interest not only to students and specialists of Japan and East Asia, but also to readers with a more general interest in labor history and politics, diplomatic history, Cold War history, comparative politics, and sociology.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Roots
1. Labor Movements in Western Europe, 1920–1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. The Labor Movement in Interwar and Wartime Japan, 1920–1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Labor Movements in Post-World War II Western Europe, 1944–1947 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. Uniting the Front, 1945–1947 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. Organizing the “Battle for Production” in Japan, 1945–1947 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Part II: Cold War
6. The Cold War and the Politics of Labor in Western Europe, 1947–1953 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
7. Division and Confrontation, 1947–1949 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8. Reorganization and Realignment, 1948–1950 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
9. Peace, Neutrality, and the Takano Years, 1951–1954 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
10. Productivity and Industrial Modernization under “Peaceful Coexistence”: Western Europe and Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304

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Published: January 31, 2005
ISBN: 9780824874605