Publications

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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