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...
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Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Confederation. However, in Japan, union organisation is slightly different due to the presence of enterprise unions, i.e. unions that are specific to a...
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the anti-communist offensive in all unions and campaign for the Social Democratic Party. The landscape of the Japanese labor movement shifted significantly...
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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...
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other labor unions. Local organizations in 10 prefectures and 1 region of Japan. Organized labour portal Labor unions in Japan National Union of General...
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"sweatshop" is associated with manufacturing, and the garment trade in particular; however, in Japan black companies are most often associated with office work...
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Sōhyō (redirect from General Council of Trade Unions of Japan)
the purge, Japanese conservatives fomented "democracy cells" within the established, Communist Party-dominated labor unions. As these unions collapsed...
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January 1989, public agencies began closing two Saturdays a month. Japanese labor unions made reduced working hours an important part of their demands, and...
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Ikigai (category Culture of Japan)
'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...
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Jōhatsu (category Missing person cases in Japan)
Jōhatsu (Japanese: 蒸発, Hepburn: jōhatsu; lit. "evaporation") or jouhatsu refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives...
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NEET (redirect from Not in education, employment, or training)
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...
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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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Tsundoku (category Concepts in Japanese aesthetics)
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...
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Sōdōmei (redirect from Japan General Federation of Labor)
The Japan General Federation of Labor (日本労働総同盟, Nihon Rōdō Sōdōmei), or Sōdōmei for short, was the most significant federation of trade unions in interwar...
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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...
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Opportunity Law (Japan) General: Human rights in Japan Japanese work environment Labour insurance (Japan) Labor market of Japan Labor unions in Japan Haken (employment)...
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RENGO (redirect from Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
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...
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Mono no aware (category Concepts in Japanese aesthetics)
Edo period Japanese cultural scholar Motoori Norinaga in his literary criticism of The Tale of Genji, and later to other germinal Japanese works including...
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Chūnibyō (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
Chūnibyō (中二病; lit. 'middle-school second-year syndrome') is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe adolescents with delusions of grandeur...
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Ensō (category Buddhism in Japan)
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:...
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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...
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Hikikomori (redirect from Loners in Japan)
Mental Health Activities in Communities for Social Withdrawal (in Japanese). Tokyo: Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. Japan. Ministry of Health, Labour...
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Labour movement (redirect from Labor union movement)
Labour unions in Japan Trade unions in Malaysia Trade unions in Maldives Trade unions in Nauru Trade unions in Niger Trade unions in Oman Trade unions in Pakistan...
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February 1 General Strike (1947) (category Labor disputes in Japan)
strike planned by Japanese labor unions for February 1, 1947, with the goal of fighting for the implementation of the ten demands proposed in last December...
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underpin much of Japanese cultural and aesthetic norms on what is considered tasteful or beautiful. Thus, while seen as a philosophy in Western societies...
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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...
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