Culture, Control and Commitment

A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan

by James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg

Book cover: Culture, Control and Commitment

Extent: 314 pages

Publisher: Percheron Press

Subjects: Social Sciences 

Series: Foundations of Sociology

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2003)

ISBN: 9780971958722

Price: $42.50

In stock

This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. As pointed out in the new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey first appeared; the Japanese are now moving closer to the American “market individualist” model.


This book documents the conventional wisdom that Japanese workers displayed significantly more commitment to their organizations than did American workers. But as the authors point out in their new prologue, the world is very different from when this survey of U.S. and Japanese manufacturing firms first appeared; the latter are now moving closer to the American “market individualist” model. Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1990.

  • By (author) Arne L. Kalleberg
  • By (author) James R. Lincoln