Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers

By Kaye Broadbent

The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700717439
• ISBN13: 9780700717439
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher