Perspectives on Work, Employment and Society in Japan

This book presents diverse perspectives on how work and employment are developing in a rapidly changing, contemporary Japan. Using macro- and micro-level data, the authors show both how the Japanese employment system is evolving as well as how the meanings that individual Japanese attach to their work and employment are developing.

H. CONRAD Deputy Director, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Japan J. HASSARD Professor of Organizational Analysis and Head of Organizational Analysis Group, Manchester Business School, Manchester University, UK V. HEINDORF PhD Candidate and Research Associate, Faculty of Business, Munich University, Germany Y. HONDA Associate Professor In the Sociology of Education, Interfaculty Initiative Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan T. LENG LENG Associate Professor, Head of Department, Department of Japanese Studies, The National University of Singapore H. MACNAUGHTAN Lecturer in International Business and Management for Japan, Department of Financial and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK L. MCCANN Lecturer in International and Comparative Management, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK K. MCCORMICK Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sussex, UK J. MORRIS Professor of Organizational Analysis, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK A. SASAGAWA Aoyama Gakuin University and Musashino University, Japan N. SUZUKI Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Gender Studies, Nagasaki Wesleyan University, Japan S. TAKAHATA PhD Candidate and Research Fellow, Osaka City University, Japan L.L. THANG Anthropologist and Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore F. WALDENBERGER Professor of Japanese Economy, Japan Centre, Munich University, Germany