Women's Employment in Japan

The Experience of Part-time Workers

Kaye Broadbent

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136133466
• Subtopic: Japanese History
• Index: History

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

• Front Cover
• Women’s Employment in Japan
• ASIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editor’s Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• 1.  Gendered employment tracks: ‘part-time’ versus ‘life-time’
• 2.  Conceptualising the feminisation of part-time work in Japan
• 3.  Daiichi: introducing the supermarket giant
• 4.  ‘With what I know, I should be a manager...’
• 5.  ‘When I get home, I have to be a mother...’
• 6.  Power in the union?
• 7.  What can be said about part-time work in Japan?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index