| Publications |
Books
1994. Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan. University of Hawaii Press. Selected for inclusion on the list of Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics (1994), Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1995.
1986. Non-Trivial Pursuits: Japanese Blue-Collar Women and the Life-time Employment System. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International.
Edited Volumes
2000. Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts, eds. Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society. London and New York: Routledge Press. Updated with a new preface and in paperback from University of Hawaii Press in 2003.
Published Articles and Translations
2006 “Similar Outcomes, Different Paths: the Cross-national Transfer of Gendered Regulations of Employment,” in Sylvia Walby, Heidi Gottfried, Karen Gottschall and Mari Osawa, eds., Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives. London: Palgrave: 141-161.
2005 “The Shifting Contours of Social Class in Japan,” in Jennifer Robertson, ed., A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. London: Blackwell: 104-124.
2004. “Globalization and Work/Life Balance: Gendered Implications of New Initiatives at a U.S. Multinational in Japan,” in Heidi Gottfried andLaura Reese, eds., Gender and Work in Comparative Perspective, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books: 305-321.
2003, with Mike Douglass, “2003 Preface to the Paperback Edition” of Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: xiii-xxi.
2003: “Balancing Work and Life: Whose Work? Whose Life? Whose Balance?” in Gill Latz, ed.Challenges for Japan: Democracy, Finance, International Relations, Gender. Published by the International House of Japan,Tokyo, for the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation, pp. 75-109.
2003. “Top Down, Bottom Up, and Sideways: Doing Qualitative Research in Corporations, Government Organizations,and NGOs,” in Theodore Bestor, Victoria Lyon Bestor, and Patricia Steinhof, eds., Doing Fieldwork in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 294-314.
2002. “Pinning Hopes on Angels: Reflections from an Aging Japan’s Urban Landscape,” in Roger Goodman, ed., Family and Social Policy in Japan. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press: 54-91
2000. with Mike Douglass, “Japan and Global Migration,” in Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society. London and New York: Routledge Press.
2000. “NGO Support for Migrant Workers in Japan,” in Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts, eds., Japan and Global Migration: Foreign Workers and the Advent of a Multicultural Society. London and New York: Routledge.
2000. “Inquiring into Work/Life Issues in Corporations,” Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, No. 1, Tokyo:Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
1998. “Blue-Collar Women in a Culture of Professional Housewives: Expanding the Meaning of Good Wife, Wise Mother,” Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies 30: 49-57 (1998).
1997. “Pinning Hopes on Angels: Governmental Responses to Japan’s Low Birth Rates,” Newsletter of the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. Vol. 10, August 1997:19-21.
1996. “Between Policy and Practice: Silver Human Resource Centers as Viewed from the Inside.” Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Vol 8, No. 2/3, pp. 115-132. Simultaneously published in Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan (ed: Scott A. Bass, Robert Morris, and Masaato Oka), the Haworth Press, Inc., 1996).
1996. "Careers and Commitment: Azumi's Blue-Collar Women," in Anne Imamura, ed. Reimaging Japanese Women, Berkeley: University of California Press. |
