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SUZUKI Akira
Ohara Institute for Social Research
Professor

Researcher information

■ Degree
  • Ph.D.in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.S.in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
■ Research Keyword
  • occupational disease
  • Industrial Relations
  • Labor Sociology
  • 労使関係論
  • 労働社会学
■ Field Of Study
  • Humanities & social sciences, Sociology, Sociology

Career

■ Career
  • Apr. 2008 - Present
    Professor, Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University
  • Apr. 1999 - Present
    法政大学大原社会問題研究所 助教授
  • Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2011
    中央大学法学部兼任講師
  • Sep. 1998 - Mar. 1999
    日本労働研究機構臨時研究助手
  • Jan. 1997 - Mar. 1997
    マックス・プランク社会科学研究所（Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies，ドイツ・ケルン）客員研究員
  • Apr. 1996 - Mar. 1997
    国際基督教大学社会科学研究所研究員
  • Jan. 1991 - May 1994
    ウィスコンシン大学社会学部統計学コース ティーチングアシスタント
  • Jan. 1993 - May 1993
    ウィスコンシン大学グローバルスタディプログラム リサーチアシスタント
  • Apr. 1986 - Jul. 1989
    日本電気株式会社
■ Educational Background
  • 1997, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School, Division of Sociology, Sociology
  • 1986, Sophia University, Faculty of Laws

Research activity information

■ Paper
■ MISC
■ Books and other publications
  • Japan and Ukraine Distant yet Close Partners, Historical Ties, Cotenmprary Challenges and Future Perspectives　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Riako Shindo; he Ohara Institute for; Social Research; Hosei University, Contributor, Chapter 2 Labour Diplomacy of Coal Miners' Unions in Japan and the Soviet Union in the Cold War Era: How Japanese Coal Miners Percieved Coal Miners' Working and Living Conditions and Functions of Their Trade Unions in the Soviet Union
    Hosei University Press, 28 Mar. 2025
    9784588625541
  • Temporary and Gig Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work
    Hyiyan Fu (editor), Joint work, Chapter 6 “Organizing Temporary Agency Workers in Japan: Two Types of Inclusive Union Response.”
    Oxford University Press, Jun. 2023, Not reviewed
    9780192849694
  • 水俣に生きた労働者―― チッソと新日窒労組の59年　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    富田義典; 花田昌宣; チッソ労働史研究会編著, Joint work, 「合化労連の公害問題への取り組みと新日窒労組の水俣病闘争」第2部第2章
    明石書店, 31 Mar. 2021
    9784750351919
  • Workers and Environmental Pollution　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    鈴木玲(編著; 大門信也; 江頭説子; 金美珍; 友澤悠季; 喜多川進; 長峰登記夫, Joint work, Introduction, Chapter 3 , Chapter 5
    Hosei University Press, 25 Mar. 2021
    9784588625442
  • Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Akira Suzuki (editor); Jennifer Jihye Chun; Joohee Lee; Nobuyuki Yamada; Minjin Lee; Stephanie Luce; Charles Weathers; Koshi Endo; Heiwon Kwon; Hirohiko Takasu, Editor
    Peter Lang, Nov. 2012, Not reviewed
    9783034308687
  • Neo-Liberalism and Labor　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    鈴木玲; 兵頭淳史; 五十嵐仁; 高橋祐吉; 松尾孝一; 鷲谷徹; 鬼丸朋子; 山縣宏寿; 浅見和彦; 山垣真浩, Joint work
    御茶の水書房, Mar. 2010, Not reviewed
  • 講座現代の社会政策 ３ 労働市場・労使関係・労働法　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    寺井基博; 吉村臨兵; 鈴木玲; 願興寺ひろし; 首藤若菜; 久本憲夫; 石田光男; 上西充子; 北島守, Contributor
    明石書店, Nov. 2009, Not reviewed
  • Possibilities of Labor and Welfare State　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    新川敏光; 中北浩爾; 鈴木玲; 磯崎典世; 篠田徹; 杉田弘也; 今井貴子; 松村文人; 安井宏樹; 水島治郎; 伊藤武; 横田正顕; 宮本太郎, Joint work
    ミネルヴァ書房, Apr. 2009, Not reviewed
  • Social Policy 1: Work and Life Balance and Social Policy　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Norio Hisamto; Yasunobu Tomita; Mariko Okada; Toru Kumazawa; Akira Suzuki; Rinpei Yoshimura, Joint work
    Horitsu Bunka Sha, Sep. 2008, Not reviewed
  • Organizing Strategies of Labor Unions　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    兵藤淳史; 鈴木玲; 早川征一郎; 山垣真浩; 浅見和彦; 松尾孝一; 長谷川義和; 斎藤力; 長峰登記夫; 内藤直人, Editor
    御茶の水書房, Mar. 2006, Not reviewed
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Social Movements to Ban Asbestos in Japan: ,Influence of Trade Unions and the Late Development of Grassroots Mobilization　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Akira Suzuki
    26th Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan (July 6-7, 2024) Session 29, 07 Jul. 2024, Asian Studies Conference Japan
  • Politicization of Commemoretivew Events of Atomic Bomb Victims　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    50th Annual Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI), 13 Sep. 2019, International Association of Labour History Institutions
  • Factors Behind the Ocuurrence of Karojisatsu　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Labor and Employment Relations Association 71st Annual Meeting, 14 Jun. 2019, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
  • Conditions for the Development of Blue-Green Alliances: the Case of Minamata in (Brief) Comparison with the Case of Yokkaichi　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    "Laobor and Environmental Movements" (RC44 and RC48) XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 13-19, 2014, 17 Jul. 2014, International Sociological Association
  • Why did "the blue-green coalition" succeed in the case of Minamata? An Analysis of the Struggle against Chisso in the Context of Civil Society　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    The Role of Organized Labor in Civil Society in East Asia: Comparasions between Korea, Taiwan and Japan (A semi-clised conference sponsored by the Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University, co-sponsored by RC44 International Sociological Association, 16 Jun. 2013
  • Nuclear Energy Debates within the Japanese Labor Movement and Its Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Politicization or Continued Compromise-based Depoliticization?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    A paper presented at 2nd ISA Forum (July 31-August 3, 2012, Buenos Aires), Aug. 2012
  • "Institutional Contexts and Characteristics of Social Movement Unionism in Japan"　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    A Paper Presented at XVII ISA World Congress (July 11-17 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden) (RC 44 Session 8:Rethinking social movement unionism from the periphery: Comparative dilemmas and prospects), Jul. 2010
  • Explaining Japanese Unions' Strategies for Organizing: Examination of the Strategic Choice of Industy-Level Union Federatons　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    A Paper submitted to IIRA 5th Asian Regional Congress in Seoul Korea (june 23-26, 2004), Jun. 2004
  • 労使関係研究のレビューと今後の課題　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    社会政策学会104回大会、産業労務部会において発表, May 2002
  • Rise and Decline of a Centralization Tendency of Japapanese Industrial Relations: the development of wage determination and the tripartism from the mid-1970s to the later 1990s　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    The Changing Structures of Collective Bargaining: Is "Coordinated Decentralization" the answer? at School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, Oct. 2001
  • The Decline of Associational Functions of Labor Unions in Postwar Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Global Perspectives on Civil Socity in Japan, Jan. 2000, Program of US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
  • The Radicalizing Effect of the Cold War on Union Politics of Railway Workers　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    21st Annual North American Labor History Conference (Session: Radical Paradise on the Pacific: Labor Politicsin 1950s Japan）, Oct. 1999
  • 協調的労働運動の政治的側面―鉄鋼労働運動における少数派と組合内政治―　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    日本労働社会学会及び大原社会問題研究所月例研究会, Nov. 1998
  • 戦後労働運動発展の「政治的」説明　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    日本労働研究機構 労働社会調査文献研究会, Jul. 1998
  • The Japanese Labor Movement since the Mid-1980s: Toward Unity or Fragmentation?　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    ISA RC44, Jul. 1998, ISA
  • 政労使関係と組合内政治過程との関連：理論の検討と若干の事例研究　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    日本労働社会学会 自由報告セッション, Oct. 1997
  • The Limits of 'Japanization' of Industrial Relations: An Anlysis of the Internal Politics of Unions under Decentralization of Industrial Relations　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    ASA Roundtable, Aug. 1997
  • Maor Public Upheaval or Fading Unionism: Labor Represntatives and the Reform of the Nationalized Railroads in France and Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ira Denkhaus
    SASE, Jul. 1997, SASE
  • Development of Cooperative Union-Management Relations in the Steel Industry in Japan: An Analysis from a Perspective of the Internal Politics of Steel Workers' Unions　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    ASA Roundtable, Aug. 1996, American Sociological Association
■ Affiliated academic society
  • Aug. 2010 - Present
    International Sociological Association　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • 2008 - Present
    American Sociological Association　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • 社会政策学会　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • 日本労働社会学会　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
■ Research Themes