Japanese Corporate Transition In Time And Space

This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice. It emphasizes how the workplace is experienced and shaped through the interaction of management and workers, framing critiques of macro and micro-analytical models of hierarchies in Japanese business and society.