社会行動科学特論: Employment and Labor Market in Japan, Winter Semester 2011-12
Course description
The aim of this class is to understand the organization of employment and labor markets in Japan. Japanese workers were considered to be the most hardworking, and the organization of employment was well-known, particularly in the international business circle, as Japanese management. In the last two decades, however, it was under pressure to change due to the processes of industrial structural change and globalization/liberalization, which poses an important economic sociological question: how (labor) markets are constructed and how they are changing? Taking distinctively sociological approach, this class attempts to understand employment and labor markets in Japan as historical and social constructs.
- Time and Place
Thursdays, 13:00-14:30 Room 315, Faculty of Arts and Letters Building
- Lecturer
Jun Imai Ph.D. Yoshimichi Sato Ph.D. Office Hour: by appointment
- Syllabus
Notice 2012.1.11: Happy New Year! Class materials are uploaded for last two sessions.
Reading materials
Kumazawa (1996)
熊沢 (1993)
Imai (2011)
Imai (2011) Ch. 1
Imai (2011) Ch. 2
Imai (2011) Ch. 3
Imai (2011) Ch. 4
Sugimoto (2003)
Fligstein (2001) Ch. 2
Fligstein (2001) Ch. 3
Fligstein (2001) Ch. 5
Keizer (2010) Ch. 4
Shinoda (2009)
Coe, Johns and Ward (2010)
Genda (2005)
Brinton (2008) Ch.6 Japanese
Brinton (2008) Ch.7 Japanese
Brinton (2011) Ch.6
Brinton (2011) Ch.7
Mouer and Kawanishi (2005)
young workers 1
young workers 2
working time and work effort
Presentation materials
Week 2: Why do we care about employment relations?
Week 3: Sociological theory of employment relations
Week 4 and 5: Regular employment in Japan - its rigidity and flexibility
Week 6: Non-regular Employment in Japan
Week 7 and 8: Deregulation - politics of deregulation and liberalization
Week 9: Haken: Tradition of labor lending and its present forms
Week 10: Haken: Temporary Help Firms as New Actor in the Labor Market
Week 11: Problems of Youth
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