A01=Norma Chalmers
Agro Industrial Workers
Author_Norma Chalmers
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collective bargaining dynamics
employment precarity
enterprise
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firms
Industrial Homeworkers
Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations Area
Japan Labor Bulletin
Japan's Industrial Relations
Japan's Labour Laws
Japanese Industrial Relations
Joint Consultation
labour market segmentation
Labour Standards Law
large
Large Enterprise Sector
Member Unions
MITI
National Trade Union Centres
non-regular
Non-regular Employees
Non-regular Workers
non-regular workforce
Patron Company
peripheral
Peripheral Sector
peripheral sector labour conditions
Peripheral Segment
Peripheral Workforce
Power Relations Approach
Regular Employees
sector
small
small enterprise employment
sub-contract
Sub-contract Firms
Sub-contract Workers
subcontracting practices
Unfair Labour Practices
workers
workforce
Product details
- ISBN 9780415000086
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 1989
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce. Norma Chalmers shows that there is in fact another, very different side to the picture, which occurs in the the peripheral sector. Here, conditions are often poor, wages very low and continuity of employment virtually non-existent. There are many small firms where the effectiveness of worker organisation and bargaining declines as the firm's size and proximity to the industrial centre decrease. Moreover, as Chalmers shows, the peripheral sector is very large, and the conventional picture of the model workforce should probably be confined to a few flagship companies. The book argues that the model nature of the large firms may stem in part from the fact that they are able to off-load problems onto smaller firms who produce the components necessary for the large firm sector at disadvantageous subcontract terms.
Margaret J. Robertson is an early career researcher with a specialisation in postgraduate research supervision. Her thesis investigated team supervision as it is practiced in Australian universities, and particularly in the ways that power is used within the supervisory relationships to enable or silence members of the team. Subsequent work has focused on developing ideas on how power in its various forms can be used to enhance or constrain team function and open opportunities for the rich development of new knowledge.
