The Reproductive Bargain : Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism.

Intro -- The Reproductive Bargain: Deciphering the Enigma of Japanese Capitalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- 1: The Enigma of Japanese Capitalism: An Historical Introduction -- Forging a Reproductive Bargain in Postwar Japan -- State and Society: The Formation of Japanese Capitalism -- The Japanese Employment System: Regulating Labor, Labor Regulations -- Unraveling Bargains: The Crisis of Reproduction -- Conclusion: Precarity in Japan -- The Enduring Enigma of Japanese Capitalism -- 2: Gendering Work: Deconstructing the Narrative of the Japanese Economic Miracle -- The Japanese Employment System and the Hidden Bargain -- Mapping Nonstandard Employment -- The Reproductive Bargain -- The Political Basis of the Reproductive Bargain -- Conclusion -- 3: The Logics of Part-Time and Agency Temporary Employment -- Trends and Tendencies -- Parsing Part-time Employment -- Socio-demographics of Agency Temporary Employment -- Making Precarious Employment: Different Trajectories -- National Regulatory Reform -- Precarious Employment: Lessons from Japan -- 4: Temp(t)ing Bodies: Shaping Gender at Work in Japan -- Feminist Theories of Embodiment -- The Body at Work and the Work on the Body -- Situated Selves: Gender and Embodiment at Work in Japanese Studies -- Appropriate Methods -- Gender, Bodies and Culture in Late 20th-Century Japan -- Accounting for Gender Differences: the Rise of Nonstandard Employment -- Temp(t)ing Options: Embodiment and Gender Regimes -- Screening for Temp(t)ing Bodies -- Age as Embodied Capacities and Competencies -- Dis-placement in the Organizational Body -- Conclusion -- 5: Compromising Positions: Emergent Neo-Fordisms and Reproductive Bargains -- Fordism, Regulation and Reproductive Bargains -- Neo-Fordism: What's in a Name?.

Compromising Positions: Fordism and Emerging Reproductive Bargains -- Charting the Connections -- Neo-Fordism and Bargains in Sweden, Germany and Japan -- Social Democratic Corporatist Fordism: Sweden's Third Way -- Diversified-Quality Fordism: The German Bargain -- Company Fordism in Japan -- Alternative Paths to Emerging Neo-Fordisms: Stability and Change -- Mapping Neo-Fordisms and Reproductive Bargains -- 6: Precarity among Youth: Current Challenges, Future Prospects -- Introduction -- Interpreting Youth Unemployment and Precarity -- New Forms of Precarious Work and Precarity: Creating the Lost Generation? -- Organizing Unemployed Youth -- Conclusion: Accounting for and Consequences of Precarity among Youth in Japan -- 7: Another Lost Decade? The Future of Japanese Capitalism -- The State of the Labor Movement: From Challenges and Opportunities to Precarity -- Organizational Transformations and New Forms of Labor Activism -- Unraveling of the Reproductive Bargain in Japan -- Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Perspectives -- Toward a New Political Agenda: Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index.

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labor insecurities behind Japan's postwar employment system. This economic juggernaut's decline cannot be understood without reference to the reproductive bargain. Gendering institutional analysis is a key to deciphering the enigma of Japanese capitalism.

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