Like many industrialised nations, the current employment trend in
Japan centres on diversification of the labour market with an
increased use of temporary labour. Among a wide range of
non-regular labour arrangements, haken are a newly legalised
category of non-regular workers who are typically employed by the
employment agency while working at the facilities of and being
under the authority of the client firm. They have recently expanded
exponentially under the state's deregulation policy and assumed
considerable significance in political debate, especially with
regard to the nation's 'widening gaps' known as kakusa. This is the
first anthropological study of haken and temporary agency work
(TAW) in Japan which combines both macro- and micro level analyses.
At the macro level, haken are explored from a historical
perspective with a view to showing the changing state policy and
public perception of haken. At the micro level, how TAW is
experienced by real people in concrete situations is extremely
varied and complex, often depending on intersecting structural
variables including gender, age and class. The book therefore
provides insight into the gap between powerful discourses and
everyday life, as well as a better understanding of personhood in
Japan's shifting landscape of employment. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese
Business, Asian Business and Asian Anthropology.
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