Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan : The Culture of Unequal Work / edited by Huiyan Fu.
By bridging culture and institutions, this book aims to bring a more integrated and nuanced understanding of unequal work, with a view to casting fresh light on social change in China, Japan, and beyond.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Culture of Unequal Work: Temps and Giggers in China and Japan
- 1. Old and New Inequalities: Citizenly Discounting and Precarious Work in a Changing China
- 2. Gender, Precarious Labour, and Neoliberalism in Japan
- 3. Teleworking in Pandemic Japan
- 4. Organizing around Precarity in China
- 5. Precarious Work and Challenges Facing Japanese Unionism
- 6. Organizing Temporary Agency Workers in Japan: Two Types of Inclusive Union Responses
- 7. Negotiating Gender, Citizenship, and Precarity: Migrant Women in Contemporary China
- 8. Hierarchies, Shadows, and Precarity: Cultural Production on Online Literature Platforms in China
- 9. Making Sense of Inequalities at Work: The Micropolitics of Everyday Negotiation among Non-Regular Workers in Japan
- 10. 'I'm Not a Real Freeter': Aspiration and Non-Regular Labour in Japan
- Index