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Toyota City in Transition = A Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Toyota City in Transition/ edited by Nobuhiko Nibe, Mari Nakamura, Hiroshi Yamaguchi.
其他題名:	A Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes /
其他作者:	Nibe, Nobuhiko.
面頁冊數:	VI, 240 p. 112 illus., 16 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Sociology, Urban. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9832-3
ISBN:	9789811698323

Toyota City in Transition = A Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes /
Toyota City in TransitionA Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes /[electronic resource] :edited by Nobuhiko Nibe, Mari Nakamura, Hiroshi Yamaguchi. - 1st ed. 2022. - VI, 240 p. 112 illus., 16 illus. in color.online resource.

Chapter 1. Demographic and Sociological Changes in Toyota City and the Stagnation of Community-Building Activities -- Chapter 2. Loosening Social Ties and Toyotism: Intersection of Corporate Society and Regional Society in Toyota City -- Chapter 3. A City Founded on the Automobile Industry and Agriculture: Is Cooperation Between Agriculture and Industry Possible? -- Chapter 4. History of New Town’s Development and its Present Situation: Movement and Settlement of People and Social Circles Surrounding Higashiyama District -- Chapter 5. Neighborhood Association Activity and Community Building: Possibilities and Challenges of "Hometown Building" by Second Generation -- Chapter 6. Utilization of Festivals and Events in a “New Town” -- Chapter 7. Twenty-Five Years of the Homi Housing Complex and the Migration of Japanese Brazilians -- Chapter 8. Employment and Settlement of Japanese Brazilians: The Network Formation and “Semi-Marginal” Status of Automotive Workers -- Chapter 9. Transformations and Relationships Between Two Life-Worlds:Relationships with Japanese Residents and Collective Action -- Chapter 10. Microcosm for Multicultural Community Building and Festivals: A Focus on Homi ni Oiden.

This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known about its reality. Since the 1960s, the city has continuously attracted numerous jobseekers from distant rural areas. Owing to years of stable employment and settlement within local communities, once-new workers gradually build strong ties with their neighbours and actively participate in residential activities. This pattern of settlement provides a unique example of long-prosperous industrial cities, which deserves discussion against a backdrop of the present “de-industrializing” urban economies. Unfortunately, this favourable situation is now changing, despite the regional economy’s steady recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. Addressing this paradox is the main focus of the present book. The upgrading of the Toyota Production System and concomitant widening class disparity are damaging local ties under severe pressure from global competition. Other suppressing factors are driven by sociological conditions, such as aging, declining marriage rates and birth rates. By comparing two sets of survey data, from 2009 and 2015, and performing fieldwork research in two communities that once were “new towns”, the book seeks to provide an understanding of the present situation of this unusual industrial city. At the same time, a unique theoretical perspective is revealed that does not fit the mould of either the Chicago School or the new urban sociology.

ISBN: 9789811698323

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-16-9832-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

558048
Sociology, Urban.

LC Class. No.: HT101-395

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76

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