Japanese labor is today characterized by "enterprise unions," company-by-company groupings that account for almost all of the country's labor organizations. Lacking the militancy of their forebears, these unions are credited by some with enabling Japan's postwar economic boom but blamed by others for steadily worsening job conditions.
Here are some of the milestones that led to the present state of the Japanese workforce.
June 14-16, 1886
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