Miura, Mari,

Welfare through work : conservative ideas, partisan dynamics, and social protection in Japan / Mari Miura. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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.



9780801465482 9780801465925

2019725899


Job security--Political aspects--Japan.
Public welfare--Japan.
Economic assistance, Domestic--Japan.
Labor policy--Japan.
Conservatism--Japan.


Electronic Books.

HD5708 / .W454 2012