Richard Pascale and Thomas P. Rohlen. 1983. "The Mazda Turnaround." Journal of Japanese Studies 9:219-63. (parts) Robert Wade. 1996. “Japan, the World Bank, and the art of paradigm maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective,” New Left Review June 1996 Pp. 3-36. *Supplementary reading: Abe, Masahiro. 2002. "Corporate Governance Structure and Employment Adjustment in Japan: An Empirical Analysis Using Corporate Finance Data." Industrial Relations 41(4):683-702. Week 7 (March 6) Co-determination in Germany Chapter 8 in ICER. Joel Rogers and Wolfgang Streeck. 1994. “Workplace Representation Overseas: The Works Councils Story,” in Working Under Different Rules, ed. by Richard Freeman, New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Neil Fligstein. 2000. “The Logic of Employment Systems,” in The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies. Chapter 5. Pp. 101-122. Week 8 (March 13) The stakeholder-oriented model of corporate governance Gregory Jackson. 2005. “Stakeholders Under Pressure: Corporate Governance Reform and Labour Management in Germany and Japan.” Corporate Governance: An International Review 13(3):419-428. Sanford M. Jacoby. 2007. “Principles and Agents: CalPERS and corporate governance in Japan.” Corporate Governance 15:5-15. Luca Enriques and Paolo Volpin. 2007. “Corporate Governance Reforms in Continental Europe,” Journal of Economic Perspectives. 21:117-40. *Supplementary reading: Ronald Dore. 2007. “Insider Management and Board Reform: For Whose Benefit?” in Aoki, Masahiko, Gregory Jackson, and Hideaki Miyajima, editors, Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Mid-term essay due on March 17, 5PM Week 9 (March 20) Spring recess
Week 10 (March 27) Labor issues in Chinese state capitalism Chapter 12 in ICER. Ching Kwan Lee. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. University of California Press. Chapters 3 and 5. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. 2012. “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad.” New York Times, January 25. *Supplementary reading: Barry Naughton. 1995. Growing out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993. Chapter 6. Cambridge University Press. Week 11 (April 3) Labor in Global India Chapter 13 in ICER. Aseem Shrivastava and Ashishi Kothari. 2013. Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India. Penguin Global. Chapters 1 and 2. Pp. 10-77. Week 12 (April 10) Capitalist class in global economy Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong. 2003. "Global Economy and Privileged Class," in The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream? Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. Louis Uchitelle and N.R. Kleinfield. 1996. "The Price of Jobs Lost." in The Downsizing of America, New York Times Books. Pp. 3-36. Bastiaan van Apeldoom and Naná de Graaff and Henk Overbeek. 2014. “The Reconfiguration of the Global State-Capital Nexus,” in The State-Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis: Rebound of the Capitalist State. Chapter 2. Pp. 5-20. Week 13 (April 17) Future trends in the employment Walter W. Powell. 2009. “The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise,” in The Twenty-First-Century Firm: Changing Economic Organization in International Perspective. Princeton University Press. Chapter 2. Pp. 33-68.