Status Updates From The Postwar Japanese System...

Auto manufacture. Kaizen. Impact on workers. Being worked to death. Women in work force and their assumed tenure and roles. How America picked up ideas. Unions and adaptation to the new system.

Suppression of “leftist” unions in favor of company managed ones. Japanese companies able to control labor wage and flexibility in return for some measure of job security. Government focus on growth. American productivity experts able to influence quality and management in Japan, but ignored in America.

Background of Japanese economy before ww2. Shogunate and feudal economy, western treaties and the resentment they instilled. Growth of a business system where the national interest took priority. Government gave businesses to prominent families after the business was established. Workers did not have much status or security during this time period