The Evolution of Enterprise Unionism in Japan: A Socio‐Political Perspective
本文从政治动态和国家角色出发，分析日本企业工会主义的形成，指出冷战政治和后发优势使日本政府在集体谈判初期消灭了横向工会运动，塑造了独特的企业工会结构。
Abstract This article proposes an alternative framework for understanding enterprise unionism by emphasizing political dynamics and the role of the state in labour relations. Our framework delineates the strategic behaviour patterns of each of the tripartite IR actors under collective bargaining. It maintains that the initial period of the collective bargaining era constituted a critical juncture for state labour policy that occurred in distinctive ways in different countries and that these differences played a central role in shaping the different union structures in the following decades. Our historical analysis shows that unlike its Western counterparts, the Japanese state was able to eradicate the horizontal union movement at the onset of the collective bargaining era because of its advantages as a late developer and Cold War politics, which resulted in enterprise unionism in Japan.