List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Life Is Just a Job Resume?
David W. Plath
PART ONE: CURRENTS OF EMPLOYMENT
1. Careers and Mobility in Japan's Labor Markets
Solomon B. Levine
2. Changing Employment Patterns of Women
Karen C. Holden
PART TWO: BUT AM I GETTING ANYWHERE?
3. Aborted Careers in a Public Corporation
Kenneth A. Skinner
4. Shiranai Station: Not a Destination But a Journey
Paul H. Noguchi
PART THREE: PATHS AND PRIORITIES
5. Intertwined Careers in Medical Practice
Susan O. Long
6. Where Security Begets Security: Concurrent Careers of Local Politicians
Jack G. Lewis
7. Cataclysm and Career Rebirth: The Imperial Military Elite
Theodore F. Cook Jr.
PART FOUR: WORK, FAMILY AND THE HANDS OF TIME
8. The Office: Way Station or Blind Alley?
James McLendon
9. The Tempo of Family Formation
Samuel Coleman
10. Where Work and Family Are Almost One: The Lives of Folkcraft Potters
Jill Kleinberg
Reflections: Timetables and the Lifecourse in Post-Industrial Society
Julius A. Roth
Index