Pathways to Economic Security: Gender and Nonstandard Employment in Contemporary Japan
@article{Gottfried2008PathwaysTE, title={Pathways to Economic Security: Gender and Nonstandard Employment in Contemporary Japan}, author={Heidi Gottfried}, journal={Social Indicators Research}, year={2008}, volume={88}, pages={179-196} }
Compiling data from several government surveys, this article identifies key social indicators of economic security associated with nonstandard employment in Japan. Empirical trends of nonstandard employment are contextualized in the development of Japanese coordinated capitalism from the economic boom during the 1960s through the recession of the 1990s to the turn of the 21st Century. A case study of Japan, with its high relative and absolute numbers of nonstandard workers, can reveal what…
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