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The Making of Japan's New Working Class: "Freeters" and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market

February 1, 2010 投稿者 Paul

日本の新しい労働者階級の形成−−フリーターおよび中学から労働市場への参入

David H. Slater

This article is a modified and developed version of a chapter from Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Socialization and Strategies, edited by Ishida Hiroshi and David H. Slater, Routledge 2009. For a brief outline of the book's arguments, please see Note 1A at the end of the article.

Introduction: The "New Working Class" of Urban Japan

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