The term "lifetime employment" first appeared in a Japanese translation of a 1958 book by James Abegglen.sup1/sup Once the term "lifetime employment" was coined, it went beyond the world of the social sciences; it instantly spread throughout society via journalism, becoming a permanent fixture...

Prior to 1955, the issue of personnel retrenchment touched off a number of major labor strikes. Subsequently, large-scale personnel reductions continued to attract the public's attention. What were the major issues between companies and labor unions in these personnel cutbacks? Or, conversely,...

If you look for a definition of lifetime employment in dictionaries of technical terms such as an economics dictionary, a management dictionary, or a sociology dictionary, you will find the following two concepts.

pThe number of employees typical of the big-company model is expected to decrease gradually. According to the annual reports of several well-known Japanese companies, the number of male full-time employeesâwho are supposedly the family breadwinnersâhas been falling since the collapse of the...