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Temporary and gig economy workers in China and Japan : the culture of unequal work / edited by Huiyan Fu. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gig economy--China.
- Gig economy.
- Gig economy--Japan.
- Temporary employment--China.
- Temporary employment.
- Temporary employment--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 24, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fu, Huiyan Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan
- ISBN:
- 0-19-194481-5
- 0-19-266648-7
- 0-19-266647-9
- OCLC:
- 1382693876
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