Contesting Precarity in Japan - The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus

List of contents

Introduction

1. From Coordinated to Disorganized Capitalism in Japan

2. Organized Labor and Social Conflict in Japan

3. From Precarity to Contestation

4. Precarious Labor Power and Japan's Neoliberalizing Firms

5. Precarious Labor and the Contestation of Policymaking in Japan

6. Japan's Absent Mode of Regulation: Impeded Neoliberalization

Conclusion

About the author

Saori Shibata

Summary

"Drawing on a new dataset charting protest events from the 1980s to the present, this book produces a systematic study of the new precarious labor movement that has developed during Japan's post-bubble neoliberal economic transformation"--

Product details

• Authors: Saori Shibata
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781501749933
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-4993-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Asien, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations