Abstract
This chapter examines new types and patterns of labor disputation between employers and employees in contemporary Japan. From a macroperspective, these new patterns reflect changes in industrial structure and the bargaining processes between labor and employer, which in turn is strongly associated with changes brought about due to globalization. These changes have greatly affected the type of labor employed, including temporary contract or contingent workers. These issues can also be analyzed from a micro perspective, with a focus on the individual worker, including how labor disputation relates to the persons’ living conditions and their employment careers. The author attempts to identify the major factors behind labor disputes in the current circumstances and the kinds of resolutions that have been struck between employers and employees. The particular focus is on issues that arise from what are called “individual labor-related disputes” (ILRDs). These grew in number in the context of Japan’s extended recession and the bursting of the “economic bubble” in the early 1990s.
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Hosogaya, N. (2016). Individual Labor-Related Dispute Mechanisms in Japan—Policy Intention and Individual Worker Aspirations. In: Healy, E., Arunachalam, D., Mizukami, T. (eds) Creating Social Cohesion in an Interdependent World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520227_13
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