Japanization or the Persistence of the Liberal Market? US Employment Relations in Transition

Hyeong-ki Kwon
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Hyeong-ki Kwon: Hanyang University

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2007, vol. 28, issue 2, 181-211

Abstract: By exploring changes in US production and employment relations in the 1990s and the early 21st century, this article challenges prevalent theoretical paradigms. Both those who claim a path-dependent persistence of the US model and those who argue for convergence towards a best practice do not properly understand the transformation of US production and employment relations. This article claims that this American transformation is neither convergence nor a path-dependent persistence of the traditional model, but the creation of a new divergence, different from those of countries like Japan and Germany. This divergence is not predetermined by culture and institutions, but is produced as a consequence of politics among reflexive agents.

Keywords: employment relations; institutionalism; Japanese-style employee-involvement practices; neoliberals; politics among reflexive agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X07076110

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