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- University of California Press
Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer
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- Simon Partner
- University of California Press
- Paperback
- 9780520219397
- 8.97 X 6.04 X 0.88 inches
- 1.15 pounds
- Business & Economics > Corporate & Business History - General
- English
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Book Description
This powerful consumer boom differed fundamentally from the one under way at the same time in the United States in that it began from widespread poverty and comparatively miserable living conditions. Beginning with a discussion of the prewar origins of the consumer engine that was to take off under the American Occupation, Partner quickly turns his sights on the business leaders, inventors, laborers, and ordinary citizens who participated in the broadly successful effort to create new markets for expensive, unfamiliar new products.
Throughout, the author relates these pressure-cooker years in Japan to the key themes of twentieth-century experience worldwide: the role of technology in promoting social change, the rise of mass consumer societies, and the construction of gender in advanced industrial economies.
Author Bio
Professor Simon Partner teaches late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society.
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University 1997
M.Phil., Columbia University 1994
M.A., Columbia University 1993
M.A., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 1985
M.B.A., University of Manchester (United Kingdom) 1984
B.A., University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 1980
Source: Duke University
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