The transformation of Japanese employment relations: reform without labor

This book systematically evaluates the impacts of deregulatory reforms on employment relations in Japan especially focusing on the core white collar workers. Concentrating on changes in three aspects of employment relations; contracts, employee mobility and worker effort, it examines the process of social negotiation and its results. JUN IMAI (Ph.D. Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook, 2006) Assistant Professor in the Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (CSSI) at Tohoku University in Japan. Before joining Tohoku, he was a post-doctoral research associate in the Institute of East Asian Studies and Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. INDICE: Introduction - Conceptual Framework in Employment Relations - Employment Relations in Post-war Japan - Activating the External Labour Market: The Establishment and Expansion of New Employment Forms - Shifting the Effort Bargain: The Discretionary Work System and the Introduction of Results-orientated Management - The Introduction of Reasults-orientation at COMPUJ - Conclusion: The Consequences of Reform without Labour Change

• ISBN: 978-0-230-20908-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 14/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido