(DOWNLOAD) "Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan" by David Chiavacci & Carola Hommerich # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Social Inequality in Post-Growth Japan
- Author : David Chiavacci & Carola Hommerich
- Release Date : January 13, 2016
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6662 KB
Description
In recent decades Japan has changed from a strongly growing, economically successful nation regarded as prime example of social equality and inclusion, to a nation with a stagnating economy, a shrinking population and a very high proportion of elderly people. Within this, new forms of inequality are emerging and deepening, and a new model of Japan as 'gap society' (kakusa shakai) has become common-sense. These new forms of inequality are complex, are caused in different ways by a variety of factors, and require deep-seated reforms in order to remedy them. This book provides a comprehensive overview of inequality in contemporary Japan. It examines inequality in labour and employment, in welfare and family, in education and social mobility, in the urban-rural divide, and concerning immigration, ethnic minorities and gender. The book also considers the widespread anxiety effect of the fear of inequality; and discusses how far these developments in Japan represent a new form of social problem for the wider world.