Social class and economic life chances in post-industrial Japan: The "lost generation"

Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Sorting and Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 114-133

  Brinton, Mary C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84917227251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203869154     Document Type: Chapter

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