Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization. Until...

Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...

threatening to close or move a plant. Labor unions first developed in Costa Rica in the late 1880s. The first unions were organized with the help of the...

Republicans who supported unions in the Northeast lost power after 1964. In recent decades, an enduring alliance was formed between labor unions and the Democrats...

The labor force in Japan numbered 65.9 million people in 2010, which was 59.6% of the population of 15 years old and older, and amongst them, 62.57 million...

there were from 560,000 to 760,000 Japanese personnel in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps as POWs. Of them, it is estimated...

Confederation. However, in Japan, union organisation is slightly different due to the presence of enterprise unions, i.e. unions that are specific to a...

the purge, Japanese conservatives fomented "democracy cells" within the established, Communist Party-dominated labor unions. As these unions collapsed...

other labor unions. Local organizations in 10 prefectures and 1 region of Japan. Organized labour portal Labor unions in Japan National Union of General...

January 1989, public agencies began closing two Saturdays a month. Japanese labor unions made reduced working hours an important part of their demands, and...

policies of American labor unions reflects the attitudes and rules labor unions have about immigration to the United States. Labor unions in the United States...

'raison d'être'. In their book, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, Héctor García and Francesc Miralles explain, "This Japanese concept, which...

for reading later. The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of the terms tsunde-oku (積んでおく; "to pile things...

agreements of HGPD union (which later merged into Vida) since 1977 when McDonald's opened in Austria, McDonald's relationship with trade unions was non-existent...

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000 in September 2002 to 520,000 in September 2003, according to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Other surveys by the Japanese government...

general strike that labor unions had scheduled for 1 February. Thereafter, the occupation took measures to reduce the power of unions, most notably by issuing...

"sweatshop" is associated with manufacturing, and the garment trade in particular; however, in Japan black companies are most often associated with office work...

practice of Japanese ink painting, sumi-e. The tools and mechanics of drawing the ensō are the same as those used in traditional Japanese calligraphy:...

The Soul of Japan is a book written by Inazō Nitobe exploring the way of the samurai. It was published in 1899. Bushido: The Soul of Japan is, along with...

is a Japanese concept of negative space, and a Japanese reading of the Sino-Japanese character 間. In modern interpretations of traditional Japanese arts...

underpin much of Japanese cultural and aesthetic norms on what is considered tasteful or beautiful. Thus, while seen as a philosophy in Western societies...

late 20s or early 30s to enjoy a more carefree and comfortable life. In Japanese culture, the term is especially used when negatively describing young...

union center in Japan, with over six million members as of 2011. It was founded in 1989 as a result of the merger of the Japan Confederation of Labor...

Mental Health Activities in Communities for Social Withdrawal (in Japanese). Tokyo: Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. Japan. Ministry of Health, Labour...

Edo period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga in his literary criticism of The Tale of Genji, and later to other germinal Japanese works including...

representing the first strike at a major department store in Japan in over 60 years; Labor unions in Japan "1921: The Mitsubishi-Kawasaki Strike". LibCom. 13 August...

Jōhatsu (Japanese: 蒸発, Hepburn: jōhatsu; lit. "evaporation") or jouhatsu refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives...

Giri (義理) is a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation" in English. Namiko Abe[clarification needed]...

federal and provincial labor law made strong trade unions national policy. If workers were allowed to opt out of paying union dues, the free rider problem...