Employment in East Asian Societies

社会行動科学特論Ｉ: Employment in East Asian Societies, Summer Semester 2011

 Course description

 The aim of this class is to understand the change and continuity of employment in association with the welfare regime in East Asian Societies such as Japan, 
 South Korea, China and Taiwan. In each societies, the institutional arrangements of employment including the organizations of industrial relations and 
 labor markets, the distinction of regular and non-regular employment relations, and gender division shown in all these aspects are embedded in wider 
 employment-welfare regime and developed in distinctive fashion. The arrangements have significant impacts on the distribution of various risks to maintain 
 livelihood and to have prospects of lifecourse. Taking distinctively sociological approach that sees employment (and welfare regime) as historical, social and 
 political constructs by state, firm and labor, this class attempts to examine the impacts of globalization and industrial structural change on the institutional 
 arrangements of employment, and further on the distribution of risks in these societies.

• Time and Place

 Thursdays, 13:00-14:30
 Room 315, Faculty of Arts and Letters Building

• Lecturer

 Jun Imai Ph.D.
 Karen A. Shire Ph.D. (GCOE guest professor, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
 Yoshimichi Sato Ph.D.
 Office Hour: by appointment

• Syllabus

社会行動科学特論Ｉ

ANNOUNCEMENT 2011.6.9: Revised syllabus and new readings were uploaded.

 Reading materials

Beck 1992(1986)
Calhoun Introduction
Fligstein 2001
Miyamoto 2009
Kwon Between deregulation and reregulation
Cho 2010
Cho Tables
ILO Report on Korea
Xu 2009
Swider manuscript
Review
Imai 2011
Brinton 2011 Ch.6
Brinton 2011 Ch.7
Brinton 2008 Ch.6 Japanese
Brinton 2008 Ch.7 Japanese
Chen, Ko and Lawler 2003
Yu 2009 Ch. 2
Non-regular employment in Japan
Taiwan 1
Taiwan 2
Wrap up