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Author Chalmers, Norma

Title Industrial relations in Japan : the peripheral workforce / Norma J. Chalmers
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations
Series The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Contents Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Perspectives of industrial relations in Japan: in search of the peripheral workforce -- chapter 2 Japan's peripheral workers: a profile of the small and medium sector -- chapter 3 Japan's peripheral workers: a profile of non-regular labour -- chapter 4 Japan's sub-contract workers and contract labour -- chapter 5 Case studies -- chapter 6 Japan's peripheral workers: unionization and organization -- chapter 7 Communication and conflict
Summary The conventional picture of industry and industrial relations in Japan is of a number of very large firms providing extremely attractive working conditions for their happy and contented workforce. Norma Chalmers shows that there is in fact another, very different side to the picture, which occurs in the the peripheral sector. Here, conditions are often poor, wages very low and continuity of employment virtually non-existent. There are many small firms where the effectiveness of worker organisation and bargaining declines as the firm's size and proximity to the industrial centre decrease. Moreo
Analysis Japan Industrial relations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index
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Subject Industrial relations -- Japan
Working class -- Japan
Contract labor -- Japan
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Contract labor
Industrial relations
Working class
Relations industrielles -- Japon.
Travailleurs -- Japon.
Travail temporaire -- Droit -- Japon.
Japan
Form Electronic book
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