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Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan: Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives
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This book, based on extensive original research, presents a detailed analysis of the varying opportunities and challenges experienced by Japanese women with professional careers, an important category of the population in Japan, whose lives remain little known. It addresses many key issues, including the problems of flexible work in an increasingly neoliberal environment; the pervasiveness of precarious work conditions in gendered managerial employment; the states neglect in transforming antiquated labour laws and in combating abusive corporate practices; the implications of dysfunctional employee-employer relations and those among co-workers; media representations as barometers of resistant social norms; the ambivalent effects of work related drinking practices; and the lack of collective representation due to ineffective labour unions. Overall, the book presents the disheartening realities of conflicts and ambivalence experienced by many women managers in contemporary Japan.

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Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan

This book is about the varying difficulties experienced by women with professional careers in post-bubble Japan, where they are persistently treated by the state and employers as a pool of cheap, contingent resources for the benefit of the broader economy, that is, convenient tools for meeting the governments economic plans on womenomics. Based on ethnographic data gathered from interviews with 160 women managers over a period of nearly 18 years of fieldwork, this study analyses how precarity is produced, reinforced, and perpetuated by continuities and discontinuities in shifting structural processes that generate and perpetuate the experiences of angst, anxiety, frustrations, disillusionment, and insecurity for this segment of the white-collar workforce.

To be women managers in a society that assiduously assigns womens rightful place to the domestic realm in their roles as wives and mothers is to subject their behaviour, choices, and aspirations to scrutiny and criticisms. Women managers are also peripheral, non-core players in the corporate workplace, where opportunities for career advancement are limited, and work conditions become incrementally more difficult with the rise of managerialism and nominal management in the increasingly flexible work environment of today.

With weak in labour unions to offer them limited access to collective representations, and ineffective legislations that provide little protection from unfair or abusive corporate practices, the risks many women face in their pursuit of management-track careers far outweigh the rewards promised by the opportunities they receive. Womens greater access to managerial work in neoliberal Japan is thus a mixed blessing, with significant ramifications on their emotional health, psychological well-being, social relations, and senses of self-worth.

In scrutinizing the contradictions, ambivalence, and conflicts in the lives of women managers in Japan, where neoliberal values are implemented in particular and arbitrary ways for economic agendas, this research offers unique and rich insights into understanding how womenomics as an ideological tool that persistently values women primarily and solely as contingent labour contributes to conflicts of identity and socio-economic precarity for women pursuing management-track careers in the neoliberal work environment today.

Swee-Lin Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include the neoliberal transformations of work, new practices of friendship; changing cityscapes and the urban night space; ethnographic field methods and studying up approach; globalization of East Asian popular culture; emergent corporate cultures; the commercialization of intimacy; social formations of gender; and the political economy of the global classical music industry.

She worked for many years in various international cities as auditor, financial journalist, and corporate executive before completing her graduate studies at Sophia University and later the University of Oxford. She has taught in South Korea, where she was also a Korea Foundation Research Fellow studying the conflicting desires of gendered selfhood, nationhood, and cultural identities through the globalization of contemporary Korean popular culture.

Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

Series editor:Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University

Editorial Board:

Pamela Asquith, University of Alberta

Eyal Ben Ari, Kinneret Academic College, Sea of Galilee

Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Munich

Henry Johnson, Otago University

Hirochika Nakamaki, the Suita City Museum

Founder Member of the Editorial Board:

Jan van Bremen, University of Leiden

The Japanese Family

Touch, Intimacy and Feeling

Diana Tahhan

Happiness and the Good Life in Japan

Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and Barbara Holthus

Religion in Japanese Daily Life

David C. Lewis

Escaping Japan

Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Blai Guarn and Paul Hansen

Women Managers in Neoliberal Japan

Gender, Precarious Labour and Everyday Lives

Swee-Lin Ho

For a full list of available titles please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Japan-Anthropology-Workshop-Series/book-series/SE0627

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With nearly 18 years in the making, this book has received an incredible amount of support and insights from an endless list of people since the research began in January 2002.

I am profoundly grateful to David H. Slater for being a constant source of inspiration, an extraordinary teacher, a firm friend, and my fiercest critic since my graduate student days in the School of Comparative Studies (now Faculty of Liberal Arts) at Sophia University. He has helped me discover Anthropology, altered the ways I understand the lives of individuals, and made me a much better ethnographer and person. I also thank many faculty and staff members at Sophia University and The Institute of Comparative Culture for their kind support and encouragement.

I am immensely grateful to Roger Goodman for his unwavering support, guidance, and inspiration since my doctoral studies at The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA) of the University of Oxford, and without whom this project and book would not have been possible. I thank David Gellner, Ann Waswo, and many other faculty members too for their invaluable advice and encouragement which made graduate life in Oxford a life-changing experience.

I owe special thanks to Joy Hendry for her valuable insights and support over the years. I also thank Peter Sowden, Glenda S. Roberts, and advisers of the Japan Anthropology Workshop Series for their close readings of and detailed comments on the manuscript to significantly improve the scope and depth of the book. Their kind patience and support, together with the efficient management of members of the editorial team at Routledge, have made the entire writing process an enjoyable experience.

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