A Selected Bibliography of Protecting the Weak in East Asia, Past and Present
Employee Well-Being
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Employee Well-Being General
Beauregard, T. A. and Henry, Lesley C. (2009), “Making the Link between Work-Life Balance Practices and Organizational Performance”, Human Resource Management Review, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 9–22.
Bell, Daniel A. (2008), “Daniel A. Bell Replies”, Dissent, Vol. 55 No. 1, pp. 103–104.
Benjamin C. Roberts, Hideaki Okamoto and George C. Lodge (Eds.) (1979), Collective Bargaining and Employee Participation in Western Europe, North America and Japan: Report of the Trilateral Task Force on Industrial Relations to the Trilateral Commission, Trilateral Comm, New York, N.Y.
Besley, Timothy and Burgess, Robin (2001), “Political Agency, Government Responsiveness and the Role of the Media”, European Economic Review, Vol. 45 No. 4-6, pp. 629–640.
Besley, Timothy and Prat, Andrea (2006), “Handcuffs of the Grabbing Hand? Media Capture and Government Accountability”, American Economic Review, pp. 720–736.
Bostrom, Robert N.N. (2012), Communication Yearbook 8, Media Agenda-Setting and Public Opinion: Is There a Link?”, Taylor and Francis, Hoboken.
Bryant, Jennings and Oliver, Mary B. (Eds.) (2009), Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research, Communication series. Communication Theory and Methodology, 3rd ed., Routledge, New York.
Cambois, E., Robine, J., Chaplain, E. and Jacobzone, Stéphane (1999), OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers, Vol. 37.
Danna, Karen and Griffin, Ricky W. (1999), “Health and Well-Being in the Workplace: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature”, Journal of Management, Vol. 25 No. 3, pp. 357–384.
Davis, Lee N., Davis, Jerome D. and Hoisl, Karin (2013), “Leisure Time Invention”, Organization Science, Vol. 24 No. 5, pp. 1439–1458.
Delaney, John T. and Huselid, Mark A. (1996), “The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Perceptions of Organizational Performance”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39 No. 4, pp. 949–969.
Diener, Ed (2000), “Subjective Well-being: The Science of Happiness and a Proposal for a National Index”, American Psychologist, Vol. 55 No. 1, pp. 34–43.
Dor, Daniel (2003), “On Newspaper Headlines as Relevance Optimizers”, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 35 No. 5, pp. 695–721.
Frölich, Markus, Kaplan, David S., Pagés, Carmen, Rigolini, Jamele and Robalino, David A. (Eds.) (2014), Social Insurance, Informality, and Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, First edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Fulmer, Ingrid S., Gerhart, Barry and Scott, Kimberly S. (2003), “Are the 100 Best Better? An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Being a ‘Great Place to Work’ and Firm Performance”, Personnel Psychology, pp. 965–993.
Galinsky, Ellen and Stein, Peter J. (1990), “The Impact of Human Resource Policies on Employees. Balancing Work/Family Life”, Journal of Family Issues, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 368–383.
Gallie, Duncan (2013), Economic Crisis, Quality of Work, and Social Integration: The European Experience, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
Hofmeester, Karin and Moll-Murata, Christine (2011), “The Joy and Pain of Work: Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 Introduction”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 1–23.
ILO (1999), Decent Work: Report of the Director-General, Report / International Labour Conference, Sess. 87,1, International Labour Office, Geneva.
ILO (2014), “Post-2015 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals”, available at: http://www.ilo.org/newyork/issues-at-work/millennium-development-goals/lang--en/index.htm.
Kiousis, Spiro (2004), “Explicating Media Salience: A Factor Anaylsis of New York Times Issue Coverage during the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election”, Journal of Communication, pp. 71–87.
Lazear, Edward P., Altmann, Steffen and Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2011), Inside the Firm: Contributions to Personnel Economics, IZA Prize in Labor Economics Series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York.
Lee, Ching K. (2007), Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt, University of California Press, Berkeley.
McCombs, Maxwell (2007), Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion, Reprinted, Polity Press, Cambridge.
McCombs, Maxwell E. and Shaw, Donald L. (1972), “The Agenda-Setting Function of the Press”, Public Opinion Quarterly, pp. 176–187.
Michalos, Alex C. and Diener, Ed (Eds.) (2009), The Science of Well-Being, Social Indicators Research Series, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.
Molek-Kozakowska, K. (2013), “Towards a Pragma-Linguistic Framework for the Study of Sensationalism in News Headlines”, Discourse & Communication, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 173–197.
Moosvi, Shireen (2011), “The World of Labour in Mughal India (c.1500–1750)”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 245–261.
Opotow, Susan (1990), “Moral Exclusion and Injustice: An Introduction”, Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 46 No. 1, pp. 1–20.
Plath, David W. and Coleman, Samuel (1983), Work and Lifecourse in Japan, State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y.
Scheufele, Dietram A. and Tewksbury, David (2007), “Framing, Agenda Setting, and Priming: The Evolution of Three Media Effects Models”, Journal of Communication, Vol. 57 No. 1, pp. 9–20.
Sointu, Eeva (2005), “The Rise of an Ideal: Tracing Changing Discourses of Wellbeing”, The Sociological Review, pp. 255–274.
Stömberg, David (1999), “Radio’s Impact on New Deal Spending: The Politics of Public Spending.”, Ph.D Dissertation, Princeton University, Princeton, 1999.
Strömberg, David (2001), “Mass Media and Public Policy”, European Economic Review, Vol. 45 No. 4-6, pp. 652–663.
Syed, Jawad and Özbilgin, Mustafa F. (Eds.) (2010), Managing Gender Diversity in Asia: A Research Companion, Edward Elgar Pub, Northampton, Mass.
Tarasov, Arkadiy E. (2011), “The Religious Aspect of Labour Ethics in Medieval and Early Modern Russia”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 125–140.
van der Linden, Marcel (2011), “Studying Attitudes to Work Worldwide, 1500–1650: Concepts, Sources, and Problems of Interpretation”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 25–43.
Warr, Peter (1990), “The Measurement of Well-Being and Other Aspects of Mental Health”, Journal of Occupational Psychology, Vol. 63 No. 3, pp. 193–210.
Watanabe, Hiroaki (2014), Labour Market Deregulation in Japan and Italy: Worker Protection under Neoliberal Globalisation, Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies, Vol. 95, Routledge Chapman & Hall.
Wolmerath, Martin (Ed.) (2011), Recht - Politik - Geschichte: Festschrift für Franz Josef Düwell zum 65. Geburtstag, Nomos, Baden-Baden.
Employee Well-Being Japan
Amagasa, Takashi, Nakayama, Takeo and Takahashi, Yoshitomo (2005), “Karojisatsu in Japan: Characteristics of 22 Cases of Work-Related Suicide”, Journal of Occupational Health, Vol. 47 No. 2, pp. 157–164.
Baum, Harald, Nottage, Luke, Rheuben, Joel and Thier, Markus (Eds.), Japanese Business Law in Western Languages: An Annotated Selective Bibliography, Second edition, William S. Hein & Co., Inc., Buffalo NY.
Benjamin C. Roberts, Hideaki Okamoto and George C. Lodge (Eds.) (1979), Collective Bargaining and Employee Participation in Western Europe, North America and Japan: Report of the Trilateral Task Force on Industrial Relations to the Trilateral Commission, Trilateral Comm, New York, N.Y.
Freeman, Laurie A. (2000), Closing the Shop. Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
Garon, Sheldon M. (1990), The State and Labor in Modern Japan, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Hibino, Aiko and Nagata, Motohiko (2006), “Biotechnology in the Japanese Media: Comparative Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Genetic Engineering in Japan and Europe”, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 12–23.
Kawada, Tomoko (2011), “Work-Life-Balance in Japan”, in Wolmerath, M. (Ed.), Recht - Politik - Geschichte: Festschrift für Franz Josef Düwell zum 65. Geburtstag, 1. Aufl., Nomos, Baden-Baden, pp. 17–33.
Kondo, Keisuke and Okubo, Toshihiro (2015), “Interregional Labour Migration and Real Wage Disparities: Evidence from Japan”, Papers in Regional Science, pp. 67–87.
Kondo, Naoki and Oh, Juhwan (2010), “Suicide and Karoshi (Death from Overwork) during the Recent Economic Crises in Japan: the Impacts, Mechanisms and Political Responses”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Vol. 64 No. 8, pp. 649–650.
Krämer, Hans M. (2013), “Historical Origins of a Welfare-State Regime: Unemployment Protection in Japan, 1919-1949”, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 131–153.
Kuroda, Sachiko (2010), “Do Japanese Work Shorter Hours than Before? Measuring Trends in Market Work and Leisure Using 1976-2006 Japanese Time-Use Survey”, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 24 No. 4, pp. 481–502.
Mathias, Regine (2011), “Japan in the Seventeenth Century: Labour Relations and Work Ethics”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 217–243.
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (2014), “Annual Health, Labour and Welfare Report 2013-2014. Chapter 1: General Welfare and Labour”, available at: http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/wp/wp-hw8/index.html.
Plath, David W. and Coleman, Samuel (1983), Work and Lifecourse in Japan, State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y.
Sampei, Yuki and Aoyagi-Usui, Midori (2009), “Mass-Media Coverage, its Influence on Public Awareness of Climate-Change Issues, and Implications for Japan’s National Campaign to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions”, Global Environmental Change, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 203–212.
Sekine, Yuki (2008), “The Rise of Poverty in Japan: The Emergence of the Working Poor”, Japan Labor Review, pp. 49–66.
Sleebos, Joëlle E. (2003), Low Fertility Rates in OECD Countries: Facts and Policy Responses, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, no. 14, OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, Paris, France.
Stevens. Carolyn S. (1997), On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass, The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series, Routledge, London, England, New York, N.Y.
Syed, Jawad and Özbilgin, Mustafa F. (Eds.) (2010), Managing Gender Diversity in Asia: A Research Companion, Edward Elgar Pub, Northampton, Mass.
Tsurumi, E. P. (1990), Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan, Princeton University Press, Princeton (N.J.).
Vogle, Ezra F. (1971), Japan's New Middle Class: The Salary Man and His Family in a Tokyo Suburb, University of California Press, Berkeley, London.
Winkscha, Alexander (2014), Successful Integration?: Nikkeijin in the Japanese Labor Market, Regiospectra, Berlin.
Wolmerath, Martin (Ed.) (2011), Recht - Politik - Geschichte: Festschrift für Franz Josef Düwell zum 65. Geburtstag, 1. Aufl., Nomos, Baden-Baden.
Employee Well-Being China
Allen, Robert C., Bassino, Jean-Pascal, Ma, Debin, Moll-Murata, Christine and Van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2011), “Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, 1738-1925: in Comparison with Europe, Japan, and India”, The Economic History Review, Vol. 64, pp. 8–38.
Alpermann, Björn (Ed.) (2011), Politics and Markets in Rural China, Routledge Contemporary China Series, Vol. 72, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY.
Bell, Daniel A. (2008), “Daniel A. Bell Replies”, Dissent, Vol. 55 No. 1, pp. 103–104.
Brown, Ronald C. (2010), Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York.
China's National Bureau of Statistics, “Statistical Communiqué of the People's Republic of China on the 2012 National Economic and Social Development, National Bureau of Statistics China”, available at: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/StatisticalCommuniqu/201302/t20130222_61456.html.
Dirlik, Arif (2003), “Beyond Chesnaux: Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 48 No. 1, pp. 79–99.
Duckett, Jane and Langer, Ana I. (2013), “Populism versus Neoliberalism: Diversity and Ideology in the Chinese Media's Narratives of Health Care Reform”, Modern China, Vol. 39 No. 6, pp. 653–680.
Eyferth, Jacob (2012), “Women's Work and the Politics of Homespun in Socialist China, 1949–1980”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 57 No. 03, pp. 365–391.
Gallagher, Mary E. (2007), Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., Woodstock.
Hao, Zhidong and Chen, Sheying (Eds.), Social Issues in China: Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment, International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice, volume 1.
Kung, James Kai-Sing., Bai, Nansheng and Lee, Yiu-Fai (2011), “Human Capital, Migration, and a ‘Vent’ for Surplus Rural Labour in 1930s China: The Case of the Lower Yangzi”, The Economic History Review, Vol. 64, pp. 117–141.
Lee, Ching K. (2007), Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Leung, Joe C. B and Nann, Richard C. (1995), Authority and Benevolence: Social Welfare in China, Chinese University Press, Hong Kong.
Moll-Murata, Christine (2011), “Work Ethics and Work Valuations in a Period of Commercialization: Ming China, 1500–1644”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 165–195.
Reul, Fabian (2012), “Sozialunternehmen in China: Die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für nicht-kommerzielle Einheiten”, Zeitschrift für Chinesisches Recht (ZChinR), Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 179–205.
Schneider, Helen M. (2013), “Chin Angelina. Bound to Emancipate. Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-century China and Hong Kong. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham [etc.] 2012. xiii, 279 pp. Ill. £51.95”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 58 No. 02, pp. 331–334.
Schuchur, Günter (2011), “The Constricted Evolution of China's Rural Labour Market”, in Alpermann, B. (Ed.), Politics and Markets in Rural China, Routledge Contemporary China Series, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY.
Shi, Li (2008), Rural Migrant Workers in China: Scenario, Challenges and Public Policy, Working Paper, no. 89, ILO, Geneva.
Shirk, Susan L. (Ed.) (2011), Changing Media, Changing China in Shirk, S L (Ed) Chaning Media, Changing China, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York.
Smith, Steve A. (1996), “Workers, the Intelligentsia and Marxist Parties: St Petersburg, 1895–1917 and Shanghai, 1921–1927”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 41 No. 01, p. 1.
Solinger, Dorothy J. (1999), Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market, Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Song, Ligang, Wu, Jiang and Zhang, Yongsheng (2010), “Urbanization of Migrant Workers and Expansion of Domestic Demand”, Social Sciences in China, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 194–216.
Wen, Jiaobao (2010), “Report on the Work of the Government”, available at: http://www.gov.cn/english/official/2010-03/15/content_1556124.htm.
Wong, Linda (1998), Marginalization and Social Welfare in China, Routledge, London, New York.
Zurndorfer, Harriet T. (2011), “Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550–1644)”, International Review of Social History, Vol. 56 No. S19, pp. 197–216.