
Reworking Japan
Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan''s corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of individual employees. With Japan''s remarkable economic growth since the 1950s, the lifestyles and life courses of "salarymen" came to embody the "New Middle Class" family ideal. However, the nearly three dec...
Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan''s corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of individual employees. With Japan''s remarkable economic growth since the 1950s, the lifestyles and life courses of "salarymen" came to embody the "New Middle Class" family ideal. However, the nearly three dec...