Tag Archives: work
From Migrant to Worker
In a new review for JCA, Jan-Jan Soon of the School of Economics, Finance & Banking at the Universiti Utara Malaysia looks at From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia by Michele Ford and published … Continue reading
Now Free: Neo-liberal managerialism in Japan
Nana Okura Gagne of the Department of Japanese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has a new article available with JCA, available at the publisher’s website. “Correcting Capitalism”: Changing Metrics and Meanings of Work among Japanese Employees (DOI: … Continue reading
Policy on Precarious Work
Heidi Gottfried of the Department of Sociology, Wayne State University reviews (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1233990) Policy Responses to Precarious Work in Asia. Edited by Hsing-Huang Michael Hsiao, Arne L. Kalleberg and Kevin Hewison, the book is published in Taiwan by Academia Sinica. … Continue reading
Work, employment and society
The SAGE journal, Work, Employment and Society, is celebrating its 30th anniversary by allowing free access to all its articles for 30 days. The topics covered in the journal are certainly of interest for many JCA readers.
Sweating workers in Asia
A new article is available at the publisher’s website. “Working Overtime in East Asia: Convergence or Divergence?” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1144778) is authored by Ming-Chang Tsai, Michio Nitta, Sang-Wook Kim and Weidong Wang. The authors are, respectively, from: Research Center for Humanities … Continue reading
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