Welfare through work
Subtitle: conservative ideas, partisan dynamics, and social protection in Japan
By: Mari Miura
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801451058
Subjects: Job security; Conservatism; Public welfare; Labor policy; Domestic Economic assistance; Social policy
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welfare through work and the gendered dual system; title: Situating Japan's social protection system in comparative perspective; title: The conservative vision and the politics of work and welfare; title: Reforming the labor markets; title: Who wants what reform?; title: The neoliberal agenda and the Diet veto; title: The double movement in Japanese politics.