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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554495103321

Autore

Shibata Saori <1973->

Titolo

Contesting precarity in Japan : the rise of nonregular workers and the new policy dissensus / / Saori Shibata [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : ILR Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-4994-3

1-5017-4995-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

331.25/72

Soggetti

Precarious employment - Social aspects - Japan

Labor policy - Japan

Labor market - Japan

Neoliberalism - Japan

Japan Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From Coordinated to Disorganized Capitalism in Japan -- Organized Labor and Social Conflict in Japan -- From Precarity to Contestation -- Precarious Labor Power and Japan's Neoliberalizing Firms -- Precarious Labor and the Contestation of Policymaking in Japan -- Japan's Absent Mode of Regulation : Impeded Neoliberalisation.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume details the new forms of workers' protest and opposition that have developed as Japan's economy has transformed over the past three decades and highlights their impact upon the country's policymaking process.