By Kaye Broadbent

The low prestige accorded to part-time employees in Japan has ended in large inequalities within the place of work. This ebook examines the matter in-depth utilizing case-study investigations in jap places of work, and divulges the level of the inequality. It indicates what number part-time employees, so much of whom are ladies, are centred in low paid, low expert, poorly unionised carrier area jobs. Part-time staff in Japan paintings hours such as, or more than, full-time employees, yet obtain decrease monetary and welfare merits than their full-time colleagues. total, the ebook demonstrates that the way in which part-time paintings is developed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual department of labour.

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