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Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy Japan and Italy encountered severe economic problems in the early 1990s, and the governments had to deal with those issues effectively under the increasing neoliberal pressures of globalisation. In this context, labour market deregulation was considered an effective tool to cope with those economic problems. However, the forms and degrees of labour market deregulation in the two countries were quite different. This book seeks to explain the differences in labour market deregulation policies between Japan and Italy, despite the fact that the two countries shared a num- ber of similar political, social and labour market (if not cultural) characteristics. Uniquely, it takes a political, rather than economic or sociological perspective to provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the processes of labour mar- ket deregulation in the two countries. The precarious working conditions of an increasing number of non-regular workers has become a prominent social issue in many industrialised countries including Japan and Italy, but the level of the pro- tection for these workers depends on a country’s labour market policies, which are affected by the power resources of labour unions and labour policy-making struc- tures. This book provides a useful perspective for understanding the root causes of this phenomenon, such as the diffusion of ‘neoliberal’ ideas aimed at promoting labour-market flexibility under globalisation, and demonstrates that there is still room for politics to decide the extent of deregulation and maintain worker protec- tion from management offensives even in an era of globalisation. Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy: Worker protection under neolib- eral globalisation will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese politics, Italian politics, political economy and comparative politics. Hiroaki Richard Watanabe is Lecturer in the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series Series Editors: Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Fellow, St Antony’s College J.A.A. Stockwin, formerly Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and for- mer Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow, St Antony’s College Other titles in the series: 1. The Myth of Japanese 8. How the Japanese Learn to Work Uniqueness Second edition Peter Dale Ronald P. Dore and Mari Sako 2. The Emperor’s Adviser 9. Japanese Economic Saionji Kinmochi and pre-war Development Japanese politics Theory and practice Lesley Connors Second edition Penelope Francks 3. A History of Japanese Economic Thought 10. Japan and Protection Tessa Morris-Suzuki The growth of protectionist sentiment and the Japanese 4. 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Labour Market Deregulation in Sawako Shirahase Japan and Italy 89. The Great Transformation of Worker protection under neolib- Japanese Capitalism eral globalisation Edited by Sébastien Lechevalier Hiroaki Richard Watanabe Translated by J. A. A. Stockwin 90. Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan Robert Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsuji- naka and Hidehiro Yamamoto Translated by Leslie Tkach- Kawasaki This page intentionally left blank Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy Worker protection under neoliberal globalisation Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
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