Matthew Allen

Undermining the Japanese Miracle

Work and Conflict in a Japanese Coal-Mining Community

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1995, is about the underside of Japan's economic miracle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9780521450096
• ISBN-10: 0521450098
• Artikelnr.: 35679607

Autorenporträt

Matthew Allen lives in Waynesville, Ohio and has served as pulpit minister for Cornerstone Church of Christ in Centerville (Dayton), Ohio since 2010 and has been preaching since 1995. Besides Matthew's local and domestic ministerial work, he has been blessed to do mission work in Ukraine, Canada, Belize, and Colombia. He has also directed several men's retreats around the country. Matthew is the owner of Spiritbuilding Publishers and is the lead host of Your Pathway Home, a live, interactive, worldwide webcast by Cornerstone Church of Christ.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
List of Maps
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary
List of abbreviations
Notes on translation and anonymity
Introduction
1. Chikuho: a short description
2. The Chikuho revivalists
3. Idegawa
4. A short history of coalmining: Chikuho in context
5. The picture show man
6. A culture in violence
7. H-san mine: violence and repression
8. The bathing master
9. Labour conflict: the case of the K-san union action
10. D-san and the students
11. Mizuno
12. The Y-san disaster
13. Sono
14. Welfare
15. Welfare in Chikuho
16. A Yakuza story
Conclusion
Bibliographical Essay
Bibliography
List of Informants
Index.