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This 8 page paper examines how industrial relations developed during this influential time in Japanese commercial history. The paper begins with the introduction of the modern corporation into Japan, the changes that took place during the Meiji Restoration and the way that culture impacted on the relationship during industrialisation. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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was the time when a period of growth began, the devastation from the Second World War had devastated in infrastructure f the country and reduced the capacity and efficiency of
its industry. Today Japan is seen as a country that has developed good solid industrial foundations based on a peopleism model of capitalism where the long term nature of employment
and the level of commitment and involvement lead to a co-operative and inclusive model with employees and the Unions (Bairoch, 1978, Abegglen, 1973). However, the real development of industrial relation
began more than a century before this. The development of industrial or employee relations cannot be avoided when there is industrial development
in a country. It was in the 1850s that the change really began in line wit the changes in the industrial structure of the country and the external forces that
materialised in 1868 with the Meiji Restoration period when political change created a new and changed culture that became subject to more and greater external influences.
The amazing aspect of the development of Japan during the 1850 - 1950 was the pace of change. The country managed to achieve industrialisation in only
a few decades. The major period of development was between 1868 and the first world war when the growth rate was rapid (Katz, 1998). The development of employee relations was
also rapid, but this did not mean it was always positive. Patterns also reflected the developments that had been seen other countries as industrialisation lead to population moves and the
problems of the migrations into the urban areas from the rural areas. If we start at the beginning of the period it can be appreciated how the industrial relations developed
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