Seeking a career, finding a job: How young people enter and resist the Japanese world of work

Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 121-136

  Mathews, Gordon ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84917427377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203316627     Document Type: Chapter

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