Examines changing employment practices in Japan, focusing on the position of the Japanese firm that is confronted with the need to address the changing economic circumstances while also maintaining some fit with the wider set of institutions that govern the Japanese labour market

1. Reconsidering Japanese employment practices -- 2. The dialectics of change -- 3. The logic of Japanese employment practices -- 4. Adjustment of employment and employment practices -- 5. The automobile industry -- 6. The electronics industry -- 7. The construction industry -- 8. The retail...

Previous analyses of Japanese employment practices have often focused almost exclusively on regular employment, relegating non-regular employment to a role as employment buffer. However, recent years have seen a rise in non-regular employment which requires a renewed analysis of its role and...