Abstract
What regime providing goods and services in a "post-industrialized society" is emerging in Japan following the transformation of the social production system from a postwar system based on the mass production system and Keynesian welfare state? What is Japanese trajectory moving toward a post-industrialized society? Over the past dozen years or so in Japan, neo-liberal institutional reforms have been undertaken to promote marketization and financialization. Consequently, established Japanese management and employment practices are facing strong pressure to change.
To examine the change and continuance of Japanese management and employment practices, this paper argues three theoretical points--mutual interaction among markets, hierarchies and workers'needs/orientations ; individualization ; and restructuring of paid work and unpaid work including domestic labor, work in non-profit associations, and volunteer activities.
