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Japan's Wartime Labor Policy: A Search for Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Ernest J. Notar
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The industrial Patriotic Movement (Sampō) symbolized the suppression of labor unions in prewar Japan, but it also shaped the development of Japan's postwar system of industrial relations. When first launched by officials of the Home Ministry in 1938, Sampō was intended to be a constructive reform movement for reducing conflict and for maintaining an efficient labor market. With the support of the police and of some labor leaders, Sampō encouraged formation of factory committees with elected worker representatives for negotiating wages and working conditions. The resistance of business leaders led to the assertion of direct bureaucratic control over the movement, and with army interference in civil administration after 1940, Sampō eventually led to the suppression of unions. Nevertheless, the foundations were laid for the spread of enterprise unionism on a national scale in the postwar era even under military rule.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , February 1985 , pp. 311 - 328
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985

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