日本におけるオルタナティブ組織研究

主婦によるワーカーズ・コレクティブ

抄録

The U.S. witnessed a wave of collectivist organizations in the 1970s. A decade later, by taking the U.S. collectivist organizations as their models, organizations called “workers' collectives” have emerged in Japan that share many characteristics of the U.S. collectivist organizations. However, the Japanese workers' collectives challenge the rational bureaucratic model by locating themselves inside the social system including the market and governmental regulations, whereas the collectivist organizations are more likely located outside the system. Being inside the system, the workers' collectives face more conflicts and difficulties than the U. S. collectivist organizations because the Japanese workers' collectives experience external pressures to become similar to the rational bureaucratic model.