Gendering Work
Deconstructing the Narrative of the Japanese Economic Miracle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2376378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Gottfried (0000-0001-7699-3609, Department of Sociology, Purdue University), Nagisa Hayashi-Kato (Department of Sociology, Purdue University) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-46 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017098121002 |
| OpenAlex | W1978270449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 38 |
The story of the Japanese system, held up as a model for economic prosperity and growth, underplays the role of non-standard labour in the narrative of `success'. Our analysis deconstructs the narrative of the Japanese economic miracle to shed light on this almost invisible pillar by tracing the historical development of non-standard employment among women. We find that this form of work constitutes a larger and faster growing share of total employment than heretofore realised, and that women account for most of the change. Rather than merely a residual dimension of Japanese employment practices, the evidence indicates that non-standard employment represents a key component of work transformation and underscores the salience of gender in the process of Japan's restructuring. We identify three institutional domains which help to explain this gendered pattern of labour market experiences in Japan: the labour market, the family, and the state. These institutional legacies set conditions for the development of the Japanese employment system which favours men as full-time wage earners and women as part-time wage workers and full-time care-givers
Art · Economic growth · Economic miracle · Economics · Labour economics · Literature · Miracle · Narrative · Political science · Prosperity · Restructuring · Sociology · Wage · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Assembling Work
Employment conditions and emerging labour movements of non‐regular workers in Japan
Why Do Temp Workers Work as Hard as They Do
Enterprising and lost
Narratives in economics
Intersections of gender and immigrant status in Japan
Changes in women’s postmarital employment in Japan and Taiwan
Nonstandard Work and Educational Differentials in Married Women's Employment in Japan
Temp(t)ing Bodies
I thought I could get away from gender discrimination
Compromising positions
Marginal Movements and Minority Struggles? The Case of the Japanese Minority Social and Labour Movements
Inclusion of 'Outsiders' by Japanese Unions? The Organizing of Non-Regular Workers in Retail
When culture resists progress
Sociologists and 'the Japanese model
Workplace Matters
Never-Married Employed Men's Gender Beliefs and Ambivalence Toward Matrimony in Japan
Enduring an economic crisis
Pathways to Economic Security
The second industrial divide
Flexible Rigidities
The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan
Miti and the Japanese Miracle
Crafting Selves
Women and the Economic Miracle
Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945
Staying on the Line
Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes
The Second Industrial Divide
The place and role of female workers in the Japanese labor market
Office Ladies, Factory Women
Office Ladies, Factory Women
Urban Japanese Housewives
The transformation of work? Skill, flexibility and the labour process
The Change of a Lifetime
Japanese Encounters with Postmodernity
Taxation and the Wife's Use of Time
Miti and the Japanese Miracle. The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975
Theoretical Considerations in Cross-National Employment Research
Japan as Number Two
Modernisation, Culture and Part-Time Employment
In the Margins
Constructing Difference
Is There a Scandinavian Political Sociology Today
Women's Part-Time Work
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |