Women's employment in Japan : the experience of part-time workers
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Women's employment in Japan : the experience of part-time workers
（ASAA women in Asia series / editor, Louise Edwards）
Routledge, c2003
- : pbk
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"Transferred to digital printing 2009"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments List of tables and figures Chapter 1. Gendered employment tracks: 'part-time' versus 'life-time' Chapter 2. Conceptualising the feminisation of part-time work in Japan Chapter 3. Daiichi: Introducing the supermarket giant Chapter 4. 'With what I know, I should be a manager...' Chapter 5. 'When I get home, I have to be a mother...' Chapter 6. Power in the Union? Chapter 7. What can be said about part-time work in Japan? Notes Bibliography Index
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