Sheldon Garon, "The State and Labor in Modern Japan," (University of California Press, 1990)

In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of suppression and mutual antagonism. Sheldon Garon, Japanese Labor Policies Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan Japan State and Labor History Japanese Government Labor Policies Labor Relations in Modern Japan Japanese State and Worker Dynamics Historical Analysis of Japan Labor Policy Japan Labor and Government Cooperation Revising Japanese Labor Suppression Views Labor Policy Development in Japan