1st Edition
An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan The Dignity of Dispatched Workers
By Huiyan Fu
Copyright 2012
192 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised category of non-regular workers who are typically employed by the employment agency while working at the facilities of and being under the authority of... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Haken: A New Non-Regular Labour Force and a Booming Industry 3. Working as a Haken in a Triangular Employment Relationship 4. Haken in Historical Perspective 5. Haken in the 'Gap-Widening' Society 6. The Search for Meaningful Work 7. Conclusion: Haken’s ‘Symbolic’ Values
Biography
Huiyan Fu is Visiting Professor of International Business at Aalen University, Germany.
"This timely and excellent analysis of the changing employment system in Japan greatly improves our understanding of what it is like to be a dispatched worker (haken) in contemporary Japan and discourse about nonregular employment, of which haken is only one of various categories such as temporary, contract, part-time, etc." - Jeff Kingston is director of Asian Studies, Temple University Japan; The Japan Times: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011
