Precarious Asia
Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
- 248 pages
- English
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Precarious Asia
Global Capitalism and Work in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
About this book
Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia as they represent a range of Asian political democracies and capitalist economies: Japan and South Korea are now developed and mature economies, while Indonesia remains a lower-middle income country.
With their established backgrounds in Asian studies, comparative political economy, social stratification and inequality, and the sociology of work, the authors yield compelling insights into the extent and consequences of precarious work, examining the dynamics underlying its rise. By linking macrostructural policies to both the mesostructure of labor relations and the microstructure of outcomes experienced by individual workers, they reveal the interplay of forces that generate precarious work, and in doing so, synthesize historical and institutional analyses with the political economy of capitalism and class relations. This book reveals how precarious work ultimately contributes to increasingly high levels of inequality and condemns segments of the population to chronic poverty and many more to livelihood and income vulnerability.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Series Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Precarious Work in Comparative Perspective
- 2. Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia
- 3. Global Capitalism, Domestic Policies, and Precarious Work
- 4. Dualisms of Precarious Work: Nonstandard Work, Informal Economy, and Self-Employment
- 5. Precarious Work, Wages, and Social Protections
- 6. Precarious Work: Politics and Policies
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index