Watanabe, H. orcid.org/0000-0002-8377-0195 (2018) Labour market dualism and diversification in Japan. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 56 (3). pp. 579-602. ISSN 0007-1080
Abstract
The Japanese labour market has been regarded ‘dualistic’ in terms of employment status (regular vs. non-regular). While it is true, this perspective misses recent changes in regular employment in terms of labour flexibility. The government has attempted labour market deregulation since the 1990s to increase the flexibility of not only non-regular but also regular employment, and the labour market has become more diversified. Labour unions lack power resources to resist these neoliberal changes, however, because of their insufficient access to policy-making, low union density and a lack of solidarity against the background of economic stagnation and competition under globalization.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors British Journal of Industrial Relations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Labour market dualism and diversification; unions’ power resources; regular employment; neoliberalism; Japan |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number JAPAN FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE 5431013 GREAT BRITAIN SASAKAWA FOUNDATION 4729 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2017 13:17 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2023 08:56 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/bjir.12258 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119559 |
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