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Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies

By: Yuko Ogasawara

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Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies

By: Yuko Ogasawara

In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. In this engaging ethnography, Yuko Ogasawara exposes the ways that these women resist men's power, and why the men, despite their exclusive command of authority, often subject themselves to the women's control. Ogasawara, a Japanese sociologist trained in the United States, skillfully mines perceptive participant-observation analyses and numerous interviews to outline the tensions and humiliations of OL work. She details the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that OLs who are frustrated by demeaning, dead-end jobs thwart their managers and subvert the power structure to their advantage. Using gossip, outright work refusal, and public gift-giving as manipulative strategies, they can ultimately make or break the careers of the men. This intimate and absorbing analysis illustrates how the relationships between women and work, and women and men, are far more complex than the previous literature has shown.

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Univ of California Press

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0520919750

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9780520919754

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Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies

By: Yuko Ogasawara

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CultureShock! Tokyo

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

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A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

A survival guide to customs and etiquette.

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Marshall Cavendish

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9814435910

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9789814435918

Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism

By: Yuko Kikuchi

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Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism

By: Yuko Kikuchi

Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei shops and Mingei restaurants. The theory, at its core and its adaptation by Bernard Leach, has long been an influential 'Oriental' aesthetic for studio craft artists in the West. But why did Mingei become so particularly influential to a western audience? And could the 'Orientalness' perceived in Mingei theory be nothing more than a myth? This richly illustrated work offers controversial new evidence through its cross-cultural examination of a wide range of materials in Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese, bringing about startling new conclusions concerning Japanese modernization and cultural authenticity. This new interpretation of the Mingei movement will appeal to scholars of Japanese art history as well as those with interests in cultural identity in non-Western cultures.

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329

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Routledge

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113442955X

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9781134429554

Tokyo at Your Door

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

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Tokyo at Your Door

By: Yuko Morimoto-Yoshida

- Spending extended time in a city - How to lease or rent apartments - Local food names and where to buy it - How to set up bank accounts and pay taxes What laws may affect you and your long-term residency - The typical workplace, and the entertainment scene in your new city - (See page 83 for full list of Culture Shock! At Your Door guides)

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West Winds Press

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1558687483

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Book's by Yuko Ogasawara

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

CultureShock! Tokyo

CultureShock! Tokyo

Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

Tokyo at Your Door

Tokyo at Your Door

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