Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Managing Major Hazards: The Lessons of the Moura Mine Disaster

centrated their efforts on obtaining higher wage increases. Neither workers' firm-specific skills nor moderate unions are a sufficient condition for participation in management; also needed is will. Only after facing the oil crisis did unions push hard enough to secure an important voice in management-the quid pro quo being their cooperation with management on other matters. Japanese labor's "success" is now being threatened by neo-liberalism at the macro level, with a continuous decline in union density, a gradual spread of individualized wage systems, liberalization of labor market regulations, and so on. Meantime, labor at the micro level is searching for a new direction in labor-management relations. Kume does not treat these issues, which, I believe, demand attention from all scholars interested in the experience of Japanese labor.