변증법적 관점에서 바라본 일본 임금체계의 역사적 변화와 시사점

This study examines the historical changes in Japan's wage system after the Meiji period from a dialectical point of view. After the Meiji era, which had a strong individual performance-based practice, the wage system based on a cost of living emerged due to the need for price control and the influence of the imperial view of labor during the war in the Showa era. And it culminated in the firms of the electric industry after the World War II. Since then, Japanese companies have made continuous efforts to change the wage system towards that is based on work while controlling seniority in the wage system. This change, however, was achieved not through the complete exclusion of seniority, but through the process of finding an appropriate combination of job and seniority demanded from the environment of the times. Dialectical sublimation(Aufheben) means sublimation to a comprehensive stage with a double meaning in which the previous contradiction is eliminated but preserved. From a dialectical point of view, the change in the Japanese wage system is a continuous process of overcoming the contradictions of the existing wage system and creating new alternatives, and it is necessary to find a balance suitable for the environment, rather than completely excluding either seniority or job duties.