Clarifying the Problem with Environment for Workers in Contemporary Japan

ゲンダイ ロウドウ モンダイ ニオケル モンダイセイ ノ チュウシュツ

コガシワ, マドカ

Kogashiwa, Madoka

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

労働社会学

非正規雇用労働者の基幹労働力化

均等待遇

社会的対話

atypical workers

sociology of work(labor)

advanced utilization of atypical workers equitable treatment

social dialogue

This paper aims to think about how we connect researches to solving the problems with environment for workers in contemporary Japan. The findings of previous researches about atypical workers and fluid employment are follows: (1) Atypical workers like part-time employees have increased for twenty years. (2) In some companies, “core part-time employees” have increased. (3) Treatments for full-time employees are very different from treatments for core part-time employees, and it is said that treatments for core part-time employees are the problems in terms of equitable treatment. They cannot receive good salary. Sociology of work(labor) and labor economics attempted to describe the fact, to clarify a primary factor and the others, to show what to do in contemporary Japan. Clarifying what to do, however, doesn’t connect to action for improving the environment directly. It is necessary for researchers to clarify how to act (how we can act) in order to connect researches to solving the problem, and I think it is the key to equitable treatment to describe social dialogue and compare with social dialogue in other country in sociological researches about the problems.