When did we start to think of "entering society" as "joining a company"? What exactly is the "company" that is so pervasive in the lives of modern Japanese people and has such a major influence on their daily thinking about career advancement, diligence, and even desire? We explore the answer by examining a total of 246 books, from "Encouragement of Learning" to "Bullshit Jobs," and from self-improvement to adultery.
【table of contents】
Introduction Questioning the Company, Opening up Society Shotaro Yamashita
Part 1: The folklore of companies that don't make sense / I thought "company = society" / "Society" as a singular term / The vertical and horizontal aspects of membership / Where have all the merchants gone?
Part 2: Two Types of "Diligence"
I don't understand "The Analects and the Abacus" / The eerie "spirit" of capitalism / Diligence in saving and diligence in working / Management and paternalism / Salary and secret savings
Part 3: Starting with the home, the company, women, and factory workers / Working women, molestation, and lookism / Outline of the debate over maternal protection / The home is essentially a business entity
Part 4: Do you want to succeed or have a desire to succeed? / "Success" and the samurai society / Study hard to become a bureaucrat / Memorization is everything / The extraordinary ordinary person
Part 5: What is the purpose of self-cultivation? Company song, company motto, and founder's bust / Konosuke Matsushita's "incomprehensibility" / "Self-cultivation" for non-elites / Why new companies need company funerals / Cleaning toilets and job descriptions
No. 6: The desires of office workers: a mystery to researchers and those involved / The despair and desires of office workers / Rolling paper balloons
No. 7: Who is the company for?
ChatGPT will take away jobs / Bullshit jobs will increase again / "Care" in work / Return to "small business" / Digital platforms and markets / Do we really need companies after all?
■Column Company auxiliary lines
Don't be late. Rainbow City Entrepreneurship. Hayami Toru's "Diligent Revolution"
・Talk about "failure" and "setbacks" ・Women and successors ・Keidanren and self-development ・The "noren" as a totem
・The sadness of living in company housing ・Starting with Mitsubishi Ichigokan ・Where is "office work" heading?
■Book list 246 books featured in this book
[Book introduction]
Authors: Akihiro Hatanaka, Kei Wakabayashi, Shotaro Yamashita, Saki Kudo Edited by: Kokuyo Outdoor Learning Center, WORKSIGHT
ISBN: 978-4-910801-01-8
Bookbinding and design: Hiromi Fujita (FUJITA LLC.)
Publication date: January 18, 2025 Publisher: Kurotori Publishing Format: A5 / 224 pages Price: 1,800 yen + tax When did we start thinking of "entering society" as "joining a company"? What exactly is the "company" that is so pervasive in the lives of modern Japanese people and has such a major influence on our daily thinking about career advancement, diligence, and even desire? We explore the answer by examining a total of 246 books, from "Encouragement of Learning" to "Bullshit Jobs," and from self-improvement to adultery.