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The ‘infrastructural turn’ in labour migration studies has shifted attention away from the experiences of migrants to the role of public authorities and private actors in facilitating migrant mobilities. As part of a broader turn towards studying transnational mobilities rather than immigration and settlement, this research shows that the formaliza...
The aim of this chapter is thus to demonstrate how posting is part of a much broader process of employment institutional change. We underline the inter-regional similarities by engaging in a systematic comparison of how posting in Europe and transnational labour mobility practices in East Asia have become functionally equivalent business strategies...
International and national regulatory changes over the past twenty years have established private employment services as market actors in the intermediation of the supply and demand for temporary contract labour. Through the expansion of networks of temporary agency branches internationally, often in the wake of foreign direct investments by home‐c...
In the 2000s Austrian and German lawmakers introduced policies encouraging families to outsource domestic work to support
employment of wives and mothers. These departures from a male breadwinner model however, pegged supports to the use of marginal part-time contracts for domestic workers. Thus family support policies positioned domestic laborers...
The original version of chapter 1, “Introduction: From the Emergence to the Dynamics of Welfare Markets” was previously published with exclusive rights reserved by the Publisher. It has now been converted to open access retrospectively under a CC BY 4.0 license and the copyright holder updated to ‘The Author(s)’. The book has also been updated with...
This chapter presents the landscape of welfare markets in Europe and provides tools for the analysis and explanation of their dynamics. It shows how the new sociology of markets helps to better understand the dynamics of welfare markets, which we define as markets that provide social goods and services through the competitive activities of non-stat...
Welfare markets for home-based domestic/care services are relatively new developments in Germany. Apitzsch and Shire examine how markets for home-based eldercare, childcare, and domestic labour have developed in terms informalisation, with a focus on labour force dynamics and workers’ voice. Their analysis shows, first, how regulations, which have...
"This is an important, innovative, intelligent book about how welfare markets are made and remade in the EU. Integrating insights from sociological theories of markets and marketization, the book’s analytical framework emphasizes the actions of non-state actors – consumers, employers, firms and workers – in welfare market dynamics. This framework,...
In this article, we extend Walby’s analysis of gender transformations to theorize gender relations in conservative modernizations. We draw insights from a historical comparison of gender inequalities in Germany and Japan, to draw a distinction between conservative authoritarian and conservative democratic gender regimes, and their transformations....
Faced with demographic as well as economic changes, Germany and Japan have liberalised immigration controls for skilled migrants, set targets for foreign student enrolments in university, and introduced visa categories to enable foreign graduates to enter their labour markets. Yet a relatively modest share of foreign graduates actually receives job...
Recent research suggests that trade unions in the European Union have become more receptive towards temporary and migrant workers and recognise their distinct interests. This article investigates to what extent this shift in attitude informs union responses to cross-border temporary agency work, an important variant of migrant non-standard work in...
Studying Japan is the first comprehensive guide on qualitative methods, research designs and fieldwork in social science research on Japan. More than 70 Japan scholars from around the world provide an easy-to-read overview on qualitative methods used in research on Japan’s society, politics, culture and history. The book covers the entire research...
Feministische Ansätze scheiden sich an der Frage, ob Zwangs- und Ausbeutungsverhältnisse der Prostitution inhärent sind oder ob man von einer marktförmigen Dienstleistungsarbeit bzw. Sexarbeit sprechen kann. Der Beitrag zeichnet zentrale theoretische Positionen und neue Kontroversen nach und stellt Bezüge zu Varianten der staatlichen Regulierung vo...
Bis in die 1990er‐Jahre erschienen nationalstaatlich verankerte Institutionen, wie Bildungssystem, Wohlfahrtsstaat und industrielle Beziehungen, so zentral für Arbeit und Arbeitsmärkte, dass deren grenzüberschreitende Dimensionen kaum erforscht wurden. Neue Impulse für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Formen der Transnatio...
Die Beiträge in diesem Band entwickeln eine neuartige Perspektive auf Arbeit und Arbeitsmärkte, welche den nationalstaatlichen Referenzrahmen überschreitet. Drei Phänomene sind für die Transnationalisierung von Arbeit von besonderer Bedeutung: (1) die grenzüberschreitende Mobilität von Arbeitskräften, (2) die grenzüberschreitende Mobilität von Arbe...
Continental European economies share a pattern of employment institutions, characterised by strong employment protections, investments in workforce training, and employment-based inclusion in social security and other welfare protections. In the German economy, as elsewhere, employment protections limiting dismissals constitute a key regulatory mec...
Since 1990, three sets of policy reforms have aimed to encourage households in Germany to employ domestic help or to purchase private household services. The motivations behind these policies, however, have only very recently been tied to supporting women’s employment or expanding market-based services for households. Until the 2000s, family polici...
Recent research about growing inequalities in some of the most protected employment economies has pointed to the dualisation of employment conditions originating in the expansion of non-standard employment and the deregulation of social protection coverage for significant segments of the workforce. This paper will focus on the gendered dynamics of...
Der demografischen Wandel eröffnet vielfältige Einsatzbereiche und einen wachsenden Markt für neuartige Verknüpfungen von Dienstleistungsangeboten und innovativen Technologien im Healthcare-Bereich. Für die Gestaltung derartiger technologiegestützter Dienstleistungsinnovationen fehlen bisher jedoch Konzepte und Erfahrungswissen. In diesem Sammelban...
Die Entwicklung von neuen Technologien und Produkten für den Dienstleistungssektor profitiert erheblich von einer Beteiligung der künftigen Nutzer (Giesecke 2003). Hierbei geht es nicht nur darum eine Entwicklung zu gewährleisten, die sich an den tatsächlichen Bedarf orientiert, sondern auch die spezifischen Eigenheiten des Einsatzfeldes frühzeitig...
In diesem Beitrag werden die Erfahrungen und Besonderheiten der Pilotierung mobiler Serviceroboter in einer stationären Pflegeeinrichtung dargestellt. Der Hintergrund stellt das vom BMBF geförderte Projekt WiMi-Care dar. Die Hauptzielsetzung des Verbundvorhabens WiMi-Care war die Herstellung und Optimierung des Wissensaustauschs, um eine nutzerzent...
Die Beschäftigungsstabilität und die Möglichkeiten, hochqualifizierte Dienstleistungen extern zu flexibilisieren, werden in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion zum Arbeitsmarktwandel sehr gegensätzlich beurteilt. Anknüpfend an diese aktuelle Kontroverse analysieren wir das Wechselspiel zwischen Organisation und Kunden als integralen Bestandteil hochqualif...
To a large extent usability-research and acceptance-studies are designed retrospectively. Thus technical products and applications
are to be legitimized afterwards, in order to guarantee their social acceptance. First empirical research findings
show that it requires an early and active promotion of the knowledge-transfer between users and develope...
This study compares the effectiveness of bargaining institutions in regulating temporary contracts in Austrian, German and Spanish call centres. Unions’ capacities to bargain over the expansion and conditions of temporary contract use are shaped by bargaining structures and state regulation of various temporary contract types. National capacities t...
The growing use of temporary contracts in Europe raises the question of whether long-term employment relations are eroding in coordinated market economies, where protective regulations are historically strong. This paper, using data from establishment-level surveys conducted in 2003–2005, examines the institutional and organizational factors that h...
Abstract The Japanese term, shakaijin, refers to becoming a social adult, and locates the transition to adulthood in leaving school/university and entering an employment relation. In this paper we explore the role of company socialization in producing social adults. Company socialization is explored through a case study of a securities company, an...
This chapter discusses the economic risks of ageing posed by the ways in which men and women are employed in Japan. The focus is on the extent to which forms of employment make it possible for employees to achieve economic security during and after active employment. The gender dimension of the ageing workforce is approached from a relational and i...
The paper addresses how the temporary staffing industry secures social security and a degree of employment stability in three non-liberal market economies with a well developed temp work sector and several decades of industry regulation. Until the 1980s unions in Germany, Japan and the Netherlands effectively opposed the deregulation of the staffin...
This article assesses the claims of the management literature regarding two important aspects of front line service work; job content and relations with the immediate supervisor. It does this, firstly, by examining the relevant research literatures and, secondly, by presenting evidence from two firms based in Australia and from one based in Japan....
Economic globalization, welfare state transformation as well as political and social change on national and supranational level impact on national labor markets in advanced societies in complex ways. From a gender perspective, these dynamics of change entail deregulation as well as re-regulation of employment systems and at the same time are trigge...
List of figures List of tables Preface Notes on Editors PART ONE: RE-CONCEPTUALIZING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, GENDER AND REGULATION Introduction: Theorizing the Gendering of the New Economy: Comparative Approaches S.Walby Gender and the Conceptualization of the Knowledge Economy in Comparison K.Shire PART TWO: COMPARATIVE REGULATION Comparative Livel...
Nicht nur bei den Hochschulen, auch in der Arbeitsmarktreform erscheint Amerika als Vorbild in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion in Deutschland. In der liberalen Marktwirtschaft Amerikas wird der flexible Einsatz von Arbeitskraft kaum durch gesetzliche oder tarifliche Regulierungen be- oder verhindert. Es gibt keinen Kündigungsschutz in Amerika, auch ke...
Alle fortgeschrittenen industriellen Gesellschaften beruhen auf Verbindungen traditioneller und moderner Elemente. Die oft als traditionell oder sogar als einheitlich bezeichnete japanische Gesellschaft stellt keine Ausnahme dar. Im Wandel von einer feudalen und landwirtschaftlichen zu einer modernen kapitalistischen Industriegesellschaft bewahrte...
Labor Studies Journal 27.2 (2002) 51-59
Lee's Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women is a study of gender and labor control in one of the most dynamic new industrial regions of East Asia, formulated in dialogue with the work of Michael Burawoy and his emphasis on workers' subjectivities and the politics of production. Three...
The expansion of temporary employment, more than any other recent employ- ment change, has been credited with unraveling long-term employment commit- ments in the U.S. This paper raises the question of whether a major recent de- regulation of temporary employment in Japan can be expected to have similar effects. Within neo-institutionalist research...
"The development of call centres as a flexible interface between firms and their environments has been seen as exemplary or even symptomatic of flexible capitalism (Sennett 1998). We are going to point out that they do not just stand for organisational change but also for changes of institutions towards deregulation. Employers and managers hoped fo...
There is an important literature suggesting that the consumer has become a key focus of identity and figure of authority in contemporary society. Within this literature, however, there is little consideration of the role that the identification with the customer could play in management control within production, nor of the ensuing potential contra...
The concept of gendered work organization points to how work assignments and employment conditions are segmented on the basis of gender. Case evidence from three Japanese customer-service workplaces demonstrates how the segmentation of women's work from men's job roles, in part a result of the two-track employment system, effectively blocks career...
Changes in the structure and regulation of employment in Japan differentially impact men and women. The labor force participation of Japanese women is increasing, but women's employment is concentrated in relatively deregulated and flexible forms of non-standard and precarious employment. Women and men have relatively equal levels of unemployment a...
Call centres are a rapidly growing, IT-based channel for service and sales delivery, particularly in the financial services and telecom industries. Although little research has been undertaken on the human resource aspects of call centres, two contrasting images are emerging. The first emphasizes the bureaucratic, constraining nature of these work...
This article explores the relationship between class and the gendered domestic division of labor by examining how the contribution by husbands to housework in dual-career families varies across the class system. The article uses data from the United States and Sweden. The findings indicate that location in the class structure is not a powerful or s...
Dans cet article, l’auteur defend l’idee selon laquelle le changement dans l’organisation du travail est un processus essentiellement politique de negociations entre les travailleurs et le management, changement qui prend des formes differentes en fonction des contextes nationaux de relations industrielles. De meme, les effets retroactifs de ces ch...
Typescript. Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 51).
"Der Bericht stellt die Ergebnisse des Hauptseminars 'Methoden und Konzepte wissensintensiver Dienstleistungsarbeit' im Wintersemester 2001/2002 dar. Das Seminar wurde als eine projektorientierte Lehrveranstaltung begleitend zu den Aktivitäten eines im Fach Soziologie laufenden drittmittel-finanzierten Forschungsprojektes konzipiert. Eine theoretis...
Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse wurden anhand der ersten standardisierten Telefonumfrage gewonnen, die im Bereich der Callcenterforschung im Rahmen des internationalen Projektes "The Global Call Centre Industry" in Polen durchgeführt wurde. Ziel ist es, die Bandbreite der Managementpraxis in Callcentern zu untersuchen und der Frage nachzugehen, welche...
"In diesem Working Brief soll eine Methodenreflexion hinsichtlich der Anwendung der Grounded Theory (GT) für die Durchführung von Bedarfsanalysen zum Zweck einer bedarfsorientierten und nutzerzentrierten Technikentwicklung erfolgen. Im weiteren Verlauf der Forschungsarbeiten soll das methodische Vorgehen auch bezüglich anderer Aspekte thematisiert...
"Dieses Working Brief widmet sich den Methoden die sich für eine Bedarfsanalyse in besonders hohem Maße eignen. Hierbei wird von einer Bedarfsanalyse ausgegangen, die zum Zweck eines optimierten Innovationsprozesses durchgeführt wird. In diesem Sinn und mit dieser Zielsetzung ist im Projekt WiMi-Care eine Bedarfsanalyse durchgeführt worden - die Er...
"In diesem Working Brief wird der Zweck einer Bedarfsanalyse als vorbereitender Schritt für die Entwicklung von Mikrosystemtechnikanwendungen skizziert. Zunächst soll dargelegt werden, welche Funktion dieser Schritt im Projektdesign von WiMi-Care innehat: Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass eine Bedarfsanalyse eine notwendige Bedingung für eine bedarfs...
"In diesem Working Brief sollen die wichtigsten Befunde der im WiMi-Care Vorhaben durchgeführten Bedarfsanalyse zusammengefasst wiedergegeben werden (zu einzelnen Teilaspekten vgl. die Working Briefs 7, 8 und 9). Diese müssen derzeit noch als Zwischenergebnisse deklariert werden, da die Bedarfsanalyse in WiMi-Care als iterativer Prozess konzipiert...
"In diesem Working Brief sollen die wichtigsten Befunde eines von drei Teilaspekten der im WiMi-Care Vorhaben durchgeführten Bedarfsanalyse zusammengefasst wiedergegeben werden. Diese müssen derzeit noch als Zwischenergebnisse deklariert werden, da die Bedarfsanalyse in WiMi-Care als iterativer Prozess konzipiert worden ist, der mit der Ermittlung...
"In diesem Working Brief sollen die wichtigsten Befunde eines von drei Teilaspekten1 der im WiMi-Care Vorhaben durchgeführten Bedarfsanalyse zusammengefasst wiedergegeben werden. Diese müssen derzeit noch als Zwischenergebnisse deklariert werden, da die Bedarfsanalyse in WiMi-Care als iterativer Prozess konzipiert worden ist, der mit der Ermittlung...
