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Women in the Japanese workplace

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London; Hilary Shipman; 1990Description: 289 pISBN:
  • 9780948096181
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.4 SAS
Summary: As Japanese companies extend their operations overseas, Mary Saso, an economist who has lived in Japan since 1978, examines the treatment and experiences of women working under Japanese management in Japan, Britain and Ireland. In her study-based both on statistical data and her interviews with women on the shop floor - she compares wages and conditions, training, union involvement and attitudes to work and child care. While drawing a vivid picture of women's place in Japanese businesses - self-employed, in family firms or in large companies - she also considers the wider issues of Japanese investment abroad, and the reasons why in Britain and Ireland men are less happy under Japanese management than are women. She discusses how the treatment of working women is changing, their response to those changes, and looks at the ways in which w
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As Japanese companies extend their operations overseas, Mary Saso, an economist who has lived in Japan since 1978, examines the treatment and experiences of women working under Japanese management in Japan, Britain and Ireland. In her study-based both on statistical data and her interviews with women on the shop floor - she compares wages and conditions, training, union involvement and attitudes to work and child care.

While drawing a vivid picture of women's place in Japanese businesses - self-employed, in family firms or in large companies - she also considers the wider issues of Japanese investment abroad, and the reasons why in Britain and Ireland men are less happy under Japanese management than are women. She discusses how the treatment of working women is changing, their response to those changes, and looks at the ways in which w

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