Format:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780700717439
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9781136133381
Series Statement:
ASAA Women in Asia Series
Content:
Examines the way part-time work as it is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour
Note:
Intro -- Women's Employment in Japan The experience of part-time workers -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Gendered employment tracks: 'part-time' versus 'life-time' -- Overview of part-time work in Japan -- Historical overview of women and work -- Labour market patterns for women -- Occupational segregation -- 'Lifetime' employment -- Lifetime' employment for women -- When is a part-time worker not a part-time worker? -- Methodology -- 2. Conceptualising the feminisation of part-time work in Japan -- Labour market theories -- Incorporating gender -- Early English language studies of work in Japan -- Japanese language works on part-time work and part-time workers -- The overrepresentation of women in part-time work -- Western feminists on women and work -- Views of Japanese feminists -- 3. Daiichi: introducing the supermarket giant -- Daiichi -- Employees: working for Daiichi -- Age limits -- Hachiban -- Part-time workers and their families -- Employment experience before taking on part-time work -- 4. 'With what I know, I should be a manager...' -- Profile of part-time workers -- Survey definitions of part-time workers -- Background to the Part-time Workers' Law -- The impact of gender on wages -- Reasons for employing part-time workers -- 5. 'When I get home, I have to be a mother...' -- Nihon gata Fukushi Shakai-Japanese-style welfare society -- The impact of legislation on the division of labour in the household -- Wives and mothers in contemporary Japan -- Family structure -- Co-operation from family -- The roles of wife and mother -- Reasons for working part-time -- Job satisfaction and recreation time -- 6. Power in the union? -- The move to enterprise-based unions -- Women workers and the union movement -- The structure of Japan's union movement -- Daiichi's enterprise union
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Low and declining unionisation among women -- Rengō's advocacy on the tax-free threshold -- 7. What can be said about part-time work in Japan? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Broadbent, Kaye Women's Employment in Japan Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780700717439
Language:
English
Keywords:
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