Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan

This book presents diverse perspectives on how work and employment are developing in a rapidly changing, contemporary Japan. Using macro- and micro-level data, the authors show both how the Japanese employment system is evolving as well as how the meanings that individual Japanese attach to their work and employment are developing.

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Names Notes on Contributors Introduction: Perspectives on Work and Employment in Japan; P. Matanle & W. Lunsing The Evolution of the Japanese Employment System in Comparative Perspective; F. Waldenberger From 'Post-war' to 'Post-bubble': Contemporary Issues for Japanese Working Women; H. Macnaughtan Beyond Lifetime Employment: Re-fabricating Japan's Employment Culture; P. Matanle Recent Changes in Compensation Prices in Large Japanese Companies: Wages, Bonuses and Corporate Pensions; H. Conrad & V. Heindorf Hard Times for the Salaryman: Corporate Restructuring and Middle Managers' Working Lives; L. McCann, J. Hassard & J. Morris Japanese Engineers Abroad: Challenge and Opportunity in Globalization; K. McCormick 'Freeters': Young Atypical Workers in Japan; Y. Honda Quitting Companies: Individual Responses to Changing Employment Patterns in Early 2000s Japan; W. Lunsing Is It Worth Doing? : Highly Educated Housewives' Attitudes towards Work; A. Sasagawa Filipino Boxers and Hosts in Japan: The Feminization and Transnational Class Subjugation of Male Labour; N. Suzuki Defining a Second Career: Volunteering among Seniors in Japan; T. Leng Leng References Index