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Co-organizer
Prof. Karen Shire, Institute of Sociology, University Duisburg-Essen Steffen Heinrich, University Duisburg-Essen and Heidelberg University Dr. Florian Kohlbacher, DIJ Tokyo
New employment risks in East Asia
26. November - 27. November 2010
Vorträge
Tag 1 26. November (Freitag)
9.00 – 9.30
Introduction
Karen Shire
9.30 – 11.00
Workers’ Experiences of Employment Risks
9.30 – 10.00
Struggles in isolation: Processes and consequences of adapting to temporary agency work in contemporary Japan
Shinji KOJIMA
10.00 – 10.30
Ethnography of risk among young workers in Tokyo
David SLATER
10.30 – 11.00
The growing informal sector in China: A study of the construction industry
Sarah SWIDER
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee
11.30 – 13.00
Historical Context of the Rise of Non-Standard Employment in a “Model” Long-Term Employment System – Japan
11.30 – 12.00
Japan’s non-standard worker dilemma
Charles WEATHERS
12.00 – 12.30
Gender and precarious employment: New risks in the Japanese economy
Heidi GOTTFRIED
12.30 – 13.00
Group Discussion of Sessions 1 and 2
13.15 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 17.00
How Agency Work is Re-shaping Employment Relations
14.30 – 15.00
Between deregulation and re-regulation: Limited diffusion of temporary staffing business in Korea
Hyunji KWON
15.00 – 15.30
Dispatched labor and transformation of employment relationship: The case of Taiwan
Jyh-Jer Roger KO
15.30 – 16.00
Temporary staffing agencies and China’s active employment policies
Feng XU
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee
16.30 – 17.00
Making of a sphere of risky mobility: The new segmentation of the labor market in Japan
Jun IMAI / Yusuke HAYASHI
17.00 – 19.00
Zooming In on Specific At-Risk Groups – in a “Model” Long-Term Employment System – Japan
17.00 – 17.30
Temporary to permanent employment: Did recent economic recovery help the employment transition of Japanese youth?
Nobuko NAGASE / Masaaki MIZUOCHI
17.30 – 18.00
The risk of foregoing a huge HR potential: Chances and challenges of elder employment in Japan
Alexander P. Witzke
Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Florian Kohlbacher
Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien
Masateru HIGO
18.00 – 18.30
Working solo and (in)dependent in Japan. Risks and socio-political consequences of an emerging self-entrepreneurial workforce
Shizuka JÄGER-DRESEN
18.30 – 19.00
Group Discussion of the two Afternoon Sessions
Tag 2 27. November (Samstag)
10.00 – 11.00
Collective Responses to Employment Risks
10.00 – 10.30
Making sense of non-regular workers’ struggles in Korea
Donmoon CHO
10.30 – 11.00
Non-regular employment and social movement unionism in Japan
Akira SUZUKI
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee
11.30 – 12.30
Political Consequences of New Employment Risks
11.30 – 12.00
Common experience and diverging subjectivity: Diversification of social and political attitude of precarious employees in South Korea
Kwang-Yeong SHIN
12.00 – 12.30
Could ‘outsiders’ change Japanese politics? The expansion of non-regular employment and its impact on parties and policy
Steffen HEINRICH