Publications

1996

Gordon, Andrew. “Conditions for the Disappearance of the Japanese Working-Class Movement.” In Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia, edited by Elizabeth J. Perry. Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996. Publisher's Website

Kumazawa, Makoto. Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers. Edited by Andrew Gordon. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. Publisher's Website

1994

Gordon, Andrew. “Luttes pour le pouvoir dans les ateliers: Ouvriers et direction dans la sidérurgie des années cinquante au Japon.” Annales 49, no. 3 (1994): 511-540. Full Article URL

1993

Gordon, Andrew. “Contests for the Workplace.” In Postwar Japan as History, edited by Andrew Gordon. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. Publisher's Version

Gordon, Andrew, ed. Postwar Japan as History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. Publisher's Website

1992

Yamamoto, Tetsuji. “Theoretical Displacement of Social Sciences from Chartier to Foucault: Beyond Postmodernism (Translation).” Iichiko Intercultural 4 (1992).

1991

Gordon, Andrew. Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991. Publisher's Website

1989

Gordon, Andrew. “Araki Toichiro and the Shaping of Labor Management.” In Japanese Management in Historical Perspective, edited by Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1989. Publisher's Website

Gordon, Andrew. “The Business Lobby and Bureaucrats in Labor, 1911-1945.” In Managing Industrial Enterprise: Cases from Japan’s Prewar Experience, edited by William Wray. Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1989.

1988

Gordon, Andrew. “The Crowd and Politics in Tokyo, 1905-1918.” Past and Present 121 (1988): 141-170. Full Article URL

1987

Gordon, Andrew. “The Right to Work in Japan: Labor and the State in the Depression.” Social Research 54, no. 2 (1987): 247-272. Full Article URL Abstract

At the beginning of the Great Depression, no successful foreign model of social security for workers existed, so the Japanese were forced to develop their own solutions. The author analyzes Japanese worker and managerial responses to the crisis of the Great Depression and their continuing impact.

1986

Gordon, Andrew. “戦前南葛地域における労働組合運動の展開 (The Development of the Union Movement in the Prewar Nankatsu Area).” 大原社会問題研究所雑誌 326, no. 1 (1986): 1-17. Publisher's Website

1985

Gordon, Andrew. The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Publisher's Website

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