1st Edition
Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy Worker Protection under Neoliberal Globalisation
By Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
Copyright 2014
190 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
190 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation. In this context, labour market deregulation was considered an effective tool to cope with those economic problems. However, the forms and degrees of labour market deregulation in the two countries were... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Literature and Theories on the Politics of Labour-Market Deregulation 3. Historical Background of Japanese and Italian Labour-Market Deregulation 4. The Politics of Labour-Market Deregulation in Japan From the 1990s Until the Early 2000s 5. The Politics of Labour-Market Deregulation in Italy From the 1990s Until the Early 2000s 6. Comparative Politics of Labour-Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy 7. Conclusion
Biography
Hiroaki Richard Watanabe is Lecturer in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.
