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  • Flexibility at work: the feminisation of part-time work in Japan

    Author(s)
    Broadbent, Kaye
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Broadbent, Kaye
    Year published
    2002
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    Abstract
    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 ...
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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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    Journal Title
    The Journal of Industrial Relatioins
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jira/44/1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1472-9296.00034
    Copyright Statement
    © 2002 Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version is available at [www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
    Subject
    Applied Economics
    Business and Management
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/7141
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