Japanese Model of Industrial Relations: Warnings or Opportunities?
Japanese Model of Industrial Relations: Warnings or Opportunities?
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日本劳资关系模式:警告还是机遇?
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10.15057/8409
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1989
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R. Mouer
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R. Mouer
Since the 1970s various aspects of social organization in Japan have received attention as "models" for other countries to emulate.1 General acclaim for Japan's ability to ride out successive oil shocks (in the mid-1970s), the attention paid to Vogel's Japan as Number One (1979), and the publicity given the notion of "Look East" in Southeast and East Asia all pointed to Japan's achievements. Although latecomers to this school of learning, Australians too began from the beginning of the 1980s to show increasing interest in various aspects of Japanese life which might have accounted for that nation's rapid economic growth. In Australia, the growing interest in Japan has reflected a heightened concern with the deteriorating performance of Australia's national economy as judged by its poor balanceof-payments record. In the background there has been a tendency to speak of "Asia's economic lead" (TA, 23.11.83: 8). On the other side of the coin, a mixture of fear, disgust and lament is expressed in references to Australia becoming a "banana republic" (TA, 29. 9.87 : 14), the home for "Asia's poor whites" (CM, 26.9.84: 31) and "the Argentma of Asra "2 Voumard (1988), Carney (1988) and others suggest that the concern with the loss of Australia's international economic competitiveness has focused largely on Australia's system of industrial relations. In the late 1970s a concerted media campaign with strong Japanese participation hammered home the point that Australia had become too strike prone (Chalmers 1979). In the early 1980s the Hancock Report concluded that Australia's industrial relations had become a "dying dinosaur." Australian governments at federal and state levels wooed the Japanese with promises of a "strike truce" (CM, 18.9.84: 8). Queensland went several steps further. It passed anti-strike legislation aimed at "union anarchy" (TA, 2-3.3.85: 4), and used that legislation to break the back of the Electrical Workers Union