ネオ・コーポラティズム概念は有効か

日本におけるその適用可能性

抄録

In the past decade or so several researchers on industrial relations in Japan have tried to define industrial relations system in Japan as a “neo-corporatist” type in some sense, while this type of system has been on the decline in other advanced capitalist societies. These researchers also have questioned why a “neo-corporatist” type of industrial relations has been formalized in Japan while otherwise in other societies. This article attempts to explain why the extent to which “neo-corporatism” is institutionalized is different in national societies and to examine whether industrial relations system in Japan can be regarded as “neo-corporatist” or not. First of all, various concepts of “neo-corporatism” are specified on the basis of their “range”, “level”, “type” and “object”, and a concept of “neo-corporatism” is newly defined as an institution of class compromise, more or less, mediated by the state in capitalist society. Secondly differences between national societies in the formation of “neo-corporatism” are theoretically explicated in terms of three types in capitalist development, which “historical sociology of industrial relations” has molded. As a consequence, thirdly, it is clarified that Japan is an “exception” or a “variance” in the formation of “neo-corporatism”, and the fact that industrial relations system in Japan should not be defined as “class compromise” but “class integration” and not termed “neo-corporatist” is suggested.