A01=Kaye Broadbent
Author_Kaye Broadbent
Bosei Hogo
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Childcare Leave
conditions
Dual Labour Market Theory
enterprise
Enterprise Unions
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Existing Gendered Division
Female Full Time Workers
Full Time Housewives
Full Time Workers
gender wage gap
gendered labour market structures in Japan
hours
Japanese Supermarket
labour market inequality
Large Scale Retail Store Law
male
Male Full Time Workers
Male Union Officials
Married Women
Non-full Time Workers
paid
Paid Work
Paid Work Option
Parental Leave Law
part-time
Part-time Paid Work
Part-time Workers
Part-time Workforce
qualitative case studies
SCAP
service sector employment
sexual division of labour
Tax Threshold
unions
Women Full Time Workers
Women Part-time Workers
Women's Bureau
work
workers
workforce
workplace unionisation
Product details
- ISBN 9780415546300
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kaye Broadbent lectures in the School of Industrial Relations, Griffith University. She co-edited Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing Approaches (2000). She has been a visiting researcher at the Insitute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. Her areas of interest include gender, work and unions in a comparative context.
