 | Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan Subjects: Job security -- Political aspects -- Japan; Public welfare -- Japan; Economic assistance Domestic -- Japan; Labor policy -- Japan; Conservatism -- Japan; Japan -- Social policy; This book argues that the Japanese social protection system should be understood as a system of "welfare through work," where employment protection has functionally substituted for income maintenance. Mari Miura is Professor of Political Science at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is coeditor of The Lost Decade and Beyond: Japanese Politics in the 1990s. |
