@book{2013:vogel:japans_ne,
title = {Japan's New Middle Class},
year = {2013},
note = {This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth
treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary
edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal
work paints a rich and complex picture of the life of the salaryman
and his family.       In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded
themselves in a Tokyo suburb, living among and interviewing six
middle-class families regularly for a year. Tracing the rapid postwar
economic growth that led to hiring large numbers of workers who were
provided lifelong employment, the authors show how this phenomenon led
to a new social class—the salaried men and their families. It was a
well-educated group that prepared their children rigorously for the
same successful corporate or government jobs they held. Secure
employment and a rising standard of living enabled this new middle
class to set the dominant pattern of social life that influenced even
those who could not share it, a pattern that remains fundamental to
Japanese society today.},
edition = {},
publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Vogel, Ezra F.}
}