1st Edition
The Changing Face of Japanese Retail Working in a Chain Store
By Louella Matsunaga
Copyright 2000
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines employment structure, working practice and recruitment strategies in Japanese retail in the 1990s through a case-study of one large chain store. Issues focused on include gender in the workplace, changing notions of corporate community and the impact of Japan's recent recession. In particular the research presented here challenges the view of part-time female staff as peripheral to the workforce and asks whether a rethink of the Japanese employment system is now overdue.
Chapter 1 The Changing Face of The Japanese Company; Chapter 2 Nagasakiya and The Retail Sector in Japan; Chapter 3 Recruitment; Chapter 4 Member of Nagasakiya, Member of Society; Chapter 5 Harmony and Consensus?; Chapter 6 Unity and Fragmentation; Chapter 7 Gender Issues; Chapter 8 Company Men and Pillars of The Household; Chapter 9 Rethinking The Japanese Company;
Biography
Matsunaga, Louella