Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space - Paperback

by T. Kurihara (Author)

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.

Author Biography

TOMOKO KURIHARA is Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University, UK. He was formally an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, working with Don Slater at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.