Andrew Gordon

Andrew Gordon

"For the naval historian, please see" Andrew Gordon

Andrew Gordon is a prominent scholar of modern Japanese history. He is a faculty member at Harvard University and former chair of the Department of History there. He works primarily on labor history, and has recently begun work on the history of the sewing machine in Japan and the rise of the middle class.

elected works

*"A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present." (2003)
*"The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955." (1985) ISBN 0-674-27130-0.
*"Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan." (1992)
*"Postwar Japan as History" (ed). (1993) ISBN 0-520-07475-0.
*"The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan." (1998)

Is an adventurer who traveled to pubs far and near and at the end of his journey returned back home.


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