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The Making of Japan's New Working Class: “Freeters” and the Progression From Middle School to the Labor Market

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David H. Slater
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This article is a modified and developed version of a chapter from Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Socialization and Strategies, edited by Ishida Hiroshi and David H. Slater, Routledge 2009. For a brief outline of the book's arguments, please see Note 1A at the end of the article.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , e1
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