The Rationalisation and Modernisation of Labour Organisation and the Transformation of Coal Miners’ Lives in Twentieth-century Japan
From the early 1920s to the 1960s Japanese coal mines evolved from an industrial model based on intensive, low-cost labour to a new model involving a Fordist transformation that encouraged the development of a better trained and more directly controlled workforce. However, this process of mechanisin...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:cjs_1744 https://doi.org/10.4000/cjs.1744 urn:doi:10.4000/cjs.1744 en https://journals.openedition.org/cjs/1744 2023-09-11T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e1jb https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ The Rationalisation and Modernisation of Labour Organisation and the Transformation of Coal Miners’ Lives in Twentieth-century Japan Cipango - French Journal of Japanese Studies INALCO info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2268-1744 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cjs Thomann, Bernard mines rationalisation salaire travail santé au travail mines rationalisation wages labour occupational health From the early 1920s to the 1960s Japanese coal mines evolved from an industrial model based on intensive, low-cost labour to a new model involving a Fordist transformation that encouraged the development of a better trained and more directly controlled workforce. However, this process of mechanising production, rationalising labour and standardising mining communities’ lifestyles had a variety of impacts, not all of them positive. As early as the 1930s, “rationalisation” was labelled a threat by the unions, presented as the main cause of labour intensification and the growing number of workplace accidents and mining disasters hitting the industry at the time. In order to analyse the different stages and consequences of this process of change, this paper focuses on a variety of issues, including the organisation of production, wage systems, occupational hygiene, employer-miner dialogue and material living conditions such as housing. Du début des années 1920 et aux années 1960, les mines de charbon japonaises évoluèrent d’un modèle industriel fondé sur un travail intensif et peu coûteux, à un nouveau modèle porteur d’une transformation de type fordiste favorisant le développement d’une main d’œuvre mieux formée et plus directement contrôlée. Ce processus de mécanisation, de rationalisation du travail et de normalisation des modes de vie des communautés minières fut néanmoins loin d’être univoque. Dès les années 1930, la « rationalisation » fut aussi décriée par les syndicats comme une menace, responsable de l’intensification du travail à l’origine d’un nombre grandissant d’accidents du travail et de catastrophes minières. Pour analyser les différentes étapes de ce processus de mutation et les conséquences qu’il engendra, cet article aborde aussi bien l’organisation de la production que les systèmes de salaire, l’hygiène, les formes de dialogue entre employeurs et mineurs et les conditions matérielles de vie, tel que le logement. |
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From the early 1920s to the 1960s Japanese coal mines evolved from an industrial model based on intensive, low-cost labour to a new model involving a Fordist transformation that encouraged the development of a better trained and more directly controlled workforce. However, this process of mechanising production, rationalising labour and standardising mining communities’ lifestyles had a variety of impacts, not all of them positive. As early as the 1930s, “rationalisation” was labelled a threat by the unions, presented as the main cause of labour intensification and the growing number of workplace accidents and mining disasters hitting the industry at the time. In order to analyse the different stages and consequences of this process of change, this paper focuses on a variety of issues, including the organisation of production, wage systems, occupational hygiene, employer-miner dialogue and material living conditions such as housing. |
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The Rationalisation and Modernisation of Labour Organisation and the Transformation of Coal Miners’ Lives in Twentieth-century Japan |
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The Rationalisation and Modernisation of Labour Organisation and the Transformation of Coal Miners’ Lives in Twentieth-century Japan |
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The Rationalisation and Modernisation of Labour Organisation and the Transformation of Coal Miners’ Lives in Twentieth-century Japan |
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The Rationalisation and Modernisation of Labour Organisation and the Transformation of Coal Miners’ Lives in Twentieth-century Japan |
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