Welfare through work : conservative ideas, partisan dynamics, and social protection in Japan /

"This book argues that the Japanese social protection system should be understood as a system of "welfare through work," where employment protection has functionally substituted for income maintenance"--Publisher's Web site.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miura, Mari (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Welfare through work and the gendered dual system
  • Situating Japan's social protection system in comparative perspective
  • The conservative vision and the politics of work and welfare
  • Reforming the labor markets
  • Who wants what reform?
  • The neoliberal agenda and the Diet veto
  • The double movement in Japanese politics.