Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space [Hardcover]

This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice.Introduction The Japanese Labour Market and the Structuring of Social Relations in the Company by Gender Experiencing Social Structure at the Point of Recruitment and the Tracking System Analyzing Social Structure in the Workplace Through Experience The Workplace as a Symbolic Community The Office Space and Social Relations The Impact of Interactive Technology on Social Dynamics in the Office

'There is no doubt that Kurihara has made an important contribution to the continuing discussion on changing Japanese workplaces.' Oxford Journals

TOMOKO KURIHARA is Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University, UK. He was formally an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, working with Don Slater at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.