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Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan : Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives, Hardback Book

Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan : Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives Hardback

Part of the Japan Anthropology Workshop Series series

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This book, based on extensive original research, presents a detailed analysis of the varying opportunities and challenges experienced by Japanese women with professional careers, an important category of the population in Japan, whose lives remain little known.

It addresses many key issues, including the problems of flexible work in an increasingly neoliberal environment; the pervasiveness of precarious work conditions in gendered managerial employment; the state’s neglect in transforming antiquated labour laws and in combating abusive corporate practices; the implications of dysfunctional employee-employer relations and those among co-workers; media representations as barometers of resistant social norms; the ambivalent effects of work related drinking practices; and the lack of collective representation due to ineffective labour unions.

Overall, the book presents the disheartening realities of conflicts and ambivalence experienced by many women managers in contemporary Japan.

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