Flexibility at Work? The Feminisation of Part-Time Work in Japan  

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Broadbent, Kaye

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Industrial Relations vol. 44 no. 1 (Mar. 2002), page 3-18.
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Atkinson’s flexible firm model analyses the segmentation of the workforce utilising the concepts of core and periphery. This model offers a starting point for examining the segmentation of Japan’s labour market but provides little direction in the exploration of why women are predominant in the part-time workforce. The disparity in employment conditions between female and male workers in the periphery is fostering the development of a gender hierarchy in Japan’s non-full-time workforce resembling that existing in ‘lifetime’ employment practices. This raises questions which challenge the applicability of a model for analysing part-time work in Japan, which ignores a consideration of the gender contract.

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