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The Overwork System: Media, Masculinity, and Consumer Culture in Postwar Japan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Overwork System: Media, Masculinity, and Consumer Culture in Postwar Japan./
Author:	Timinsky, Samuel J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-12A.
Subject:	Modern history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28000149
ISBN:	9798641442938

The Overwork System: Media, Masculinity, and Consumer Culture in Postwar Japan.
Timinsky, Samuel J.

The Overwork System: Media, Masculinity, and Consumer Culture in Postwar Japan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 228 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

I disentangle four historical phenomena. First, I track the emergence of the social norm of overwork for a specific (middle-) class stratum-salarymen. Second, I analyze the evolution of the cultural debate in media about overwork. Third, I make sense of the specific discourse of karoshi (death by overwork). Fourth and finally, I examine the development of political claims around karoshi. Stress about work performance, promotion, and the desire to provide for one's family and to acquire the stuff of success all attached to a core set of class and gender-based anxieties for salarymen. Over the mid-twentieth century, Japanese working men were driven to excessively work by pressure from their families, the demands of managers and co-workers, and a media environment which constantly reinforced the normalcy and preferability of constant labor. This trio formed what I call the Overwork System. Their families' drive to consume specific goods provided incentives for men to stay at work longer, and in doing so give their kin the ability of the middle-class lifestyle. Managers and peers policed one another to ensure that men stayed at work. They also built up norms of social life which were centered on the work community. Salarymen often experienced the office and the home as if they were divorced from each other. However, popular media linked them together. Television, radio, and print publications provided the rationales for a careerist approach to labor which was initially framed as a life-long commitment to a single company, the objects of desire (leisure, homes, etc.) for workers and salarymen alike, and the idealized images of a middle-class life which would become the benchmark against which nearly all in Japan would measure themselves. The quest for that life and the work patterns which it required eventually became associated with karoshi. However, it would take decades of death from overwork before the Japanese public was substantively involved in the politics around this problem. In this dissertation I track Japan's capitalist culture of overwork between 1956 and 1989. I close with a discussion of the legacy of the Overwork System today.

ISBN: 9798641442938Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122829
Modern history.
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Capitalism

The Overwork System: Media, Masculinity, and Consumer Culture in Postwar Japan.
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