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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/growing-service-economy-more-p
 recarious-work-convergence-and-divergence-international/
SUMMARY:A Growing Service Economy with More Precarious Work? Convergence an
 d Divergence in International Comparison
DESCRIPTION:\n	Tanaka Yoko (Professor of Economic History\, International a
 nd Advanced Japanese Studies\, the University of Tsukuba\; HYI Visiting Sc
 holar)\n\n	Chair/discussant: Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Pro
 fessor of History\, Harvard University)\n\n	 \n\n	Co-sponsored with the R
 eischauer Institute\n\n	 \n\n\n	Since industrialization began to change 
 how people worked in a growing number of countries\, industrial and workfo
 rce structures have been continuously transformed. Employment increased\, 
 while the number of peasants\, self-employed\, and family helpers decrease
 d. Then the volume of employment shifted from manual or skilled male-domin
 ated work in heavy industries toward service industries with a female-majo
 rity workforce. This is clearly seen in Japan\, Germany\, and the US\, but
  also in many other countries including Korea and China. This shift towar
 d the service economy contains\, though\, an increasing trend to employ pe
 ople not in the manner of the male employees in the heavy industries\, who
  often had secure jobs with some salary and career prospects\, a social an
 d/or corporate safety net\, and relatively long-term skill development: in
  short\, good jobs. On the contrary\, employees in the service sector\, ma
 ny of whom are women\, tend to be employed part-time\, doing contract or a
 gency work\, or even working as individual independent contractors\, all t
 ypes of work which can be more precarious and less stable than that of sec
 ure\, long-term employment. This talk examines a convergence toward the s
 ervice economy\, and changes to the employment structure of these female-o
 riented industries. It investigates furthermore how labor conditions in th
 e service economy can still be differently embedded in each society with r
 ather divergent prospects\, particularly focusing on the retail industry i
 n Germany and Japan.  
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