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Unpaid Work and the Labor Market : focusing on young atypical waking -wanen

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17510222
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Gender
Research InstitutionOsaka Prefecture University

Principal Investigator

IDA Kumko  Osaka Prefecture University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor (20326242)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) ADACHI Mariko  Ochancmizu Universiy, Institute for Gender Studies, Associate professor (10347479)
KIMURA Ryoko  Osaka Universiy, School of Human Sciences, Associate Professor (70224699)
KUMAYASU Kimie  Osaka Prefecture Universiy, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Associate (90161710)
前川 真行  大阪府立大学, 総合教育研究機構, 専任講師 (80295675)
Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Keywordsgender / "freeter"(young atypicalworker) / young women / housewife part-time worker / unpaid work / atypical employment / 女性 / 雇用 / 生活 / 調査 / 生活時間
Research Abstract

In Japan, engaging in irregular forms of employment has been a typical pattern for married women. Yet recently, an increasing number of young men and women are also participating in the irregular employment market as casual or dispatch workers and have earned the name 'freeters' ('free' from the English word 'freelance' and 'ter' from the German word for worker arbeiter). While the concentration of married women in the casual labour market never emerged as an issue, the growth in young freeter is regarded as a serious social problem. In fact, married women are not even included in the freeter concept, something that can be seen clearly in the way that the Japanese government has framed the problem.
Through a study of working women aged 25 to 34 years of age in Japan and a reading of key primary and secondary sources. we argued that the way in which the problem of the growing relative size of the causal labour force in Japan has been framed around the concept of freeter serves once again to make invisible married women's precarious position in the labour market or their contribution in the productive domain. This paper is based on thorough analysis of official and media discourses surrounding the freeter, we highlight the ways in which the labour of married women has once again been rendered invisible. We propose an alternative model for understanding the growing size of the causal labour force in Japan and .suggest ways of tackling the problems of insecurity, poverty and underemployment associated with this.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2008

All Journal Article (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] 社会的排除とジェンダー2008

    • Author(s)
      伊田 久美子
    • Journal Title

      大阪府立大学女性学研究センター連続講演会記録集 12

      Pages: 1-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Social Exclusion and Gender2008

    • Author(s)
      Kumiko, IDA
    • Journal Title

      Annual Report of the conferences,Center for Women's Studies(Osaka Prefecture University) Vol.12

      Pages: 1-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 社会的排除とジェンダー2008

    • Author(s)
      伊田 久美子
    • Journal Title

      大阪府立大学女性学碩究センター連続講演会記録集 12

      Pages: 1-23

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2005-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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