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Title

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

Author

Gottfried, Heidi, 1955-

Publication

Leiden : Brill, [2015]

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Description

xvii, 166 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

'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.--

Series Statement

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; volume 77

Uniform Title

Studies in critical social sciences v. 77.

Alternative Title

Deciphering the enigma of Japanese capitalism

Subject

• Job security > Japan > History
• Capitalism > Japan
• Industrial relations > Japan > History
• Labor > Japan > History
• Employees > Japan > Social conditions
• Unemployment > Japan > History
• Gender identity in the workplace > Japan

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-163) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The enigma of Japanese capitalism : an historical introduction -- 2. Gendering work : deconstructing the narrative of the Japanese economic miracle -- 3. The logics of part-time and agency temporary employment -- 4. Temp(t)ing bodies : shaping gender at work in Japan -- 5. Compromising positions : emergent neo-Fordisms and reproductive bargains -- 6. Precarity among youth : current challenges, future prospects -- 7. Another lost decade? The future of Japanese capitalism

ISBN

• 9789004291492 (hd.bd.)
• 9789004291485 (online) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

904036886

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library