(227) How Will Japan’s Historic 2019 Labor Reforms Benefit Workers?

Organizer(s)

• SN

  Scott North

  Osaka University, Japan

Chair(s)

• CW

  Charles Weathers

  Osaka City University, Japan

Paper Presenter(s)

• TS

  Takaaki Suzuki

  Ohio University
• CW

  Charles Weathers

  Osaka City University, Japan
• SK

  Shinji Kojima

  Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
• SN

  Scott North

  Osaka University, Japan

Presentations:

• "Pernicious Institutional Complementarity" and the Politics of Welfare and Labor Reform in Japan
  Takaaki Suzuki – Ohio University
• Work Style Reform and Women: The Limits of Japanese Style Neoliberal Reform
  Charles Weathers – Osaka City University
• Temporary Agency Workers and the Japanese Way of Equal Pay for Equal Work
  Shinji Kojima – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
• Lost Time: Japan's Work Hours Regulation Reforms
  Scott North – Osaka University