Industrial Relations in Japan

The Peripheral Sector
1. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-0-415-00008-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

Reihe: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

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. Moreover, as Chalmers shows, the peripheral sector is very large, and the conventional picture of the model workforce should probably be confined to a few flagship companies. The book argues that the model nature of the large firms may stem in part from the fact that they are able to off-load problems onto smaller firms who produce the components necessary for the large firm sector at disadvantageous subcontract terms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chalmers, Norma

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Perspectives of Industrial Relations in Japan: In Search of the Peripheral Workforce 2. Japan's Peripheral Workers: A Profile of the Small and Medium Sector 3. Japan's Peripheral Workers: A Profile of Non-Regular Labour 4. Japan's Sub-Contract Workers and Contract Labour 5. Case Studies 6. Japan's Peripheral Workers 7. Communication and Conflict

Über Autor(innen)

Norma Chalmers