Wrecked : how the American automobile industry destroyed its capacity to compete / by Murray, Joshua (Sociologist), Schwartz, Michael, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Japanese advantage: flexible production and innovation -- Flexible production in the early U.S. auto industry -- Class conflict and the impetus to abandon flexible production -- The dire consequences of abandoning flexible production -- The Japanese counterfactual: maintaining flexible production -- Conclusion.…”
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A life adrift : Soeda Azembō, popular song, and modern mass culture in Japan / by Soeda, Azenbō, 1872-1944

Peasant protest in Japan, 1590-1884 / by Bix, Herbert P.

Table of Contents: “…Transitions to a new order: class conflicts up to the late Nineteenth Century -- Problem of interpretation -- Conflict and social change, 1800-1873 -- The Kasei Rising in Tsuyama, 1866-1867 -- The debased-currency risings in Shinshū, 1869-1870 -- Results and conclusions.…”
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