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Industrial associations as ideational platforms : why Japan resisted American-style shareholder capitalism

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Gotoh, Fumihito (2020) Industrial associations as ideational platforms : why Japan resisted American-style shareholder capitalism. The Pacific Review, 33 (1). pp. 125-152. doi:10.1080/09512748.2018.1557245

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Abstract

Significant wage and treatment differentials between regular workers in long-term employment and precarious non-regular workers have been a major political issue in Japan since the mid-1990s. I argue this phenomenon was caused by Japanese society’s resistance to American neoliberal hegemony. Why has Japan resisted it, and how has the resistance resulted in the rapid increase in the working poor? I contend anti-liberal, anti-free market norms of Japanese society centred on ‘systemic support’ have bolstered resistance to convergence in order to prevent capitalist dominance from severing long-term social ties, such as management-labour cooperation. My broadened definition of systemic support incorporates dominant elites’ support and protection of subordinates in exchange for their loyalty and obedience. This paper will explore reasons for the resistance to convergence by examining an ideational conflict within Japanese elites between the market liberalisation and anti-free market camps, particularly between two major industrial associations, Keidanren and Keizai Doyukai, which have played a key role as ‘ideational platforms’ for Japanese corporate society. Under the Hashimoto (1996-8) and Koizumi (2001-6) administrations, the market liberalisation camp gained influence, but since 2006, both the anti-free market camp and its subordinates (e.g. regular workers) have driven anti-neoliberal backlash.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
J Political Science > JQ Political institutions (Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific Area, etc.)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Japan -- Economic conditions, Neoliberalism, Labor market -- Japan, Social norms -- Japan
Journal or Publication Title: The Pacific Review
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0951-2748
Official Date: 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
2020Published
15 January 2019Available
5 December 2018Accepted
Volume: 33
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 125-152
DOI: 10.1080/09512748.2018.1557245
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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