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Japanese industry is the envy of the world for its efficient and humane management practices. Yet, as William Tsutsui argues, the origins and implications of "Japanese-style management" are poorly understood. Contrary to widespread belief, Japan's acclaimed strategies are not particularly novel or even especially Japanese.


Tsutsui traces the roots of these practices to Scientific Management, or Taylorism, an American concept that arrived in Japan at the turn of the century. During subsequent decades, this imported model was embraced--and ultimately transformed--in Japan's industrial workshops. Imitation gave rise to innovation as Japanese managers sought a "revised" Taylorism that combined mechanistic efficiency with respect for the humanity of labor.


Tsutsui's groundbreaking study charts Taylorism's Japanese incarnation, from the "efficiency movement" of the 1920s, through Depression-era "rationalization" and wartime mobilization, up to postwar "productivity" drives and quality-control campaigns. Taylorism became more than a management tool; its spread beyond the factory was a potent intellectual template in debates over economic growth, social policy, and political authority in modern Japan.


Tsutsui's historical and comparative perspectives reveal the centrality of Japanese Taylorism to ongoing discussions of Japan's government-industry relations and the evolution of Fordist mass production. He compels us to rethink what implications Japanese-style management has for Western industries, as well as the future of Japan itself.

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CONTENTS
Preface = ⅸ
Abbreviations = xiii
Introduction = 3
1. The Introduction of Taylorism and the Efficiency Movement, 1911-1927 = 14
  Industrial Management in Japan Before Taylor = 15
  Preaching the Taylorite Gospel = 18
  Implementing Scientific Management in Taish o ? Japan = 28
  Workers, Intellectuals, and the Question of Taylorism = 37
  Scientific Management and Japanese Paternalism = 49
2. The Rationalization Movement and Scientific Management, 1927-1937 = 58
  The Meanings of Rationalization = 58
  Rationalizing the Scientific Management Movement = 71
  Scientific Management's Depression = 84
3. The Wartime Economy and Scientific Management, 1937-1945 = 90
  Wartime Economic Policy and the Efficiency Movement = 91
  Concluding the Debate over Taylorism = 96
  The Planned Economy and the Logic of Scientific Management = 103
  Scientific Management and the Dilemmas of Wartime Industry = 108
  Labor, Spiritualism, and Management = 115
  The Legacies of War = 119
4. Management and Ideology, 1945-1960 = 122
  The Crisis of Capitalism and the Keizai D o ? y u ? kai = 122
  Management Autonomy and Rationalization Redux = 129
  Discovering the Ideology of Productivity = 133
  Spreading the Good News of Productivity = 140
  Completing the Consensus on Productivity = 147
5. The Long Shadow of Taylorism : Labor Relations and "Lean Production," 1945-1973 = 152
  The Old and the New in Occupied Japan = 152
  Reconnecting with American Management = 159
  The "Miracle Economy" and Management Reform = 163
  The Wage Conundrum = 167
  The Origins of "Lean Production" = 176
6. Taylorism Transformed? Scientific Management and Quality Control, 1945-1973 = 190
  The Discovery of Quality = 191
  W. Edwards Deming and Japanese Quality Control = 197
  Breaking the Logjam in Quality Control = 201
  TQC : Creating Consciousness = 207
  TQC : Redefining the Message = 213
The Ideology of TQC = 220
  QC Circles and the Taylorite Legacy = 224
Epilogue : The Taylorite Roots of "Japanese-Style Management" = 236
Bibliography = 245
Index = 273