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Non-standard Employment under Globalization

Flexible Work and Social Security in the Newly Industrializing Countries

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Koichi Usami

    1. Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO, Japan

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Part of the book series: IDE-JETRO Series (IDE)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Transformation of Employment and Social Security in Newly Industrializing Countries: Problems and Analytical Concepts

    • Koichi Usami
    Pages 1-17

  3. Labor and Social Security Reforms in Mexico: From the Perspective of State-Labor Relationships

    • Keiko Hata
    Pages 18-46

  4. Re-thinking Argentina’s Labor and Social Security Reform in the 1990s: Agreement on Competitive Corporatism

    • Koichi Usami
    Pages 47-72

  5. The Changing Nature of Employment and the Reform of Labor and Social Security Legislation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    • Kumiko Makino
    Pages 73-97

  6. The Impact of the Transformation of Labor Relations on Social Security System Reform in the People’s Republic of China: The Growing Allure and Reality of Corporatism

    • Yukari Sawada
    Pages 98-141

  7. The Tripartite Relationship and Social Policy in Taiwan: Searching for a New Corporatism?

    • Yasuhiro Kamimura
    Pages 142-175

  8. Labor and Welfare for an Advanced Economy in the Republic of Korea: A Policy Mix of Universalism and Neoliberalism

    • Jo-Seol Kim
    Pages 176-219

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 220-228
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Expansion of non-standard employment under globalization is widely observed in all of the newly industrializing countries. This book explores the deregulation of labour markets, social protection for nonstandard workers, and social security reforms in accordance with the transformation of employment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO, Japan

    Koichi Usami

About the editor

KOICHI USAMI has been studying on social policies and welfare states in Latina America and Asia. His major works are: Comparative Study of Social Security Systems in Asia and Latin America: A Contribution to the Study of Emerging Welfare State' in The Developing Economies, Vol. XLII No. 2, 2004; 'Latin American Social Security Reform in the 1990s' (Junji Nakagawa ed.) Managing Development: Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy (London: Routledge, 2006).

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