Historical Research on the Relationship between the Transformation and Abolition of the "Educational Status System" and the Actual operation of "Japanese Employment System

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01784
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07070:Economic history-related
• Research Institution: Dokkyo University
• Principal Investigator: ICHIHARA Hiroshi 獨協大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30168322)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 教育資格（学歴） / 技術教育 / 企業内教育 / 人事制度 / 学歴身分制度 / 技術者 / 現場主義 / 技術情報の共有

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I have examined the in-house educational institutions that aimed to train high school graduates to become human resources equivalent to university graduates and their personnel management, focusing mainly on Tokyo Electric Power Company and Hitachi, Ltd and published the result as the English and Japanese research papers. In addition, using labor union records of the Nagasaki Shipyard in Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Ltd, I investigated the actual operation of the personnel system from the immediate postwar period until after the introduction of the job qualification system at the end of the 1960s, and published the results as single-authored book together with a revised manuscript based on research results obtained through a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.

Free Research Field

経済史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

戦後直後に実施された教育資格を基準とする「工員・職員身分」制度の廃止により、職員と技能工の格差が縮小し、従業員としての強い一体感を特徴とする日本的雇用制度が形成されたとする学術界のみならず、一般社会にも強い影響力を及ぼしている通念を実証的に検討し、戦後になっても教育資格の人事制度への規定力は継続し、技能工の職員職能への異動は、むしろ職能資格制度の導入以降減少した可能性があることを明らかにして、通念に根本的な疑義を唱えた。