Salary Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tomoko Kurihara (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss010 |
| OpenAlex | W4230481530 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
In contemporary Japanese society the term salary men refers mainly to white‐collar elites in multinational corporations (who represent approximately 20 percent of the total working population). As described in Beck and Beck's A Change of a Lifetime (1994) salary men constitute a managerial class that occupies the top stratum of the business community and is accorded high status in society. Its members have almost exclusively obtained degrees from Japan's most prestigious universities. However, in practice, a wider use of and flexible self‐identification with the term is common. The term can therefore refer to both non‐elite white‐collar and occasionally blue‐collar workers. Such flexible usage is made possible by Japan's industrial structure – the keiretsu system – which links large corporations to medium‐sized and small subcontracting firms. The combination of English terms is used to signify, literally, a worker whose firm guarantees him a salaried income
Business · Collar · Demographic economics · Economics · Elite · Keiretsu · Labour economics · Management · Market economy · Multinational corporation · Political science · Politics · Population · Salary · Sociology · White (mutation · Demography · Family Business Performance and Succession · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Finance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |