“To Give Up” and to Resist in a Changing Corporate Society:

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  • 揺らぐ企業社会における「あきらめ」と抵抗
  • 揺らぐ企業社会における「あきらめ」と抵抗 : 「若者の労働運動」の事例研究
  • ユラグ キギョウ シャカイ ニ オケル 「 アキラメ 」 ト テイコウ : 「 ワカモノ ノ ロウドウ ウンドウ 」 ノ ジレイ ケンキュウ
  • 「若者の労働運動」の事例研究
  • Cases Studies of the Youth Labor Movement

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While many Japanese young people have troubles in their lives as the result of changes in corporate society, it is very difficult for them to think about their troubles as social issues and to approach them collectively, because even “getting together” has become difficult in late modern individualized society. Nevertheless, some young people are participating collectively in the Youth Labor Movement in Japan. The object of this paper is to analyze the nature of their resistance through the Youth Labor Movement. To this end, the author has focused on and interviewed union members characterized by a high degree of personal agency. In this context, “agency” is meant as the ability to set goals for one's own life strategically and to choose helpful resources from what is available; the concept is used when researchers analyze transitions from school to work. People with a high degree of personal agency represent an contradiction of a changing corporate society that we can't tell what decide their social position, whether structural reason or individual one.<br>The interviews make clear the following points. Before interviewees had labor consultations with their unions, they thought that their troubles were individual ones and that to blame companies was a kind of egotism. But after the consultations they came to realize that their problems were social issues best resolved collectively through unions. They also found that their political awareness was heated up paradoxically by “giving up,” (in other words, cooling down their aspirations to achieve higher positions in society) or by accepting themselves as they are. These cases show that “to give up” does not necessarily mean to stop resistance.

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