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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463467403321

Autore

Gottfried Heidi <1955->

Titolo

The reproductive bargain : deciphering the enigma of Japanese capitalism / / by Heidi Gottfried

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 167 pages)

Collana

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, , 1573-4234 ; ; Volume 77

Disciplina

331.0952

Soggetti

Job security - Japan - History

Industrial relations - Japan - History

Employees - Japan - History

Labor - Japan - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- The Enigma of Japanese Capitalism: An Historical Introduction -- Gendering Work: Deconstructing the Narrative of the Japanese Economic Miracle -- The Logics of Part-Time and Agency Temporary Employment -- Temp(t)ing Bodies: Shaping Gender at Work in Japan -- Compromising Positions: Emergent Neo-Fordisms and Reproductive Bargains -- Precarity among Youth: Current Challenges, Future Prospects -- Another Lost Decade? The Future of Japanese Capitalism -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labor insecurities behind Japan’s postwar employment system. This economic juggernaut’s decline cannot be understood without reference to the reproductive bargain. The historical terms of the reproductive bargain rests on the establishment of company citizenship in support of a standard employment relationship, privileging the male breadwinner in calculations for benefits in exchange for the salarymen working long hours in relatively secure jobs at the enterprise and relying on women’s unpaid reproductive labor in the family and increasingly on women’s waged work in nonstandard jobs. Such institutionalized relationships,



formerly the engines of growth and stability, drag economic expansion and employment security. Gendering institutional analysis is a key to deciphering the enigma of Japanese capitalism.