2 パートのユニオンリーダーと組合参加 : 小売企業におけるパート組織化の事例調査をもとにして(III 投稿論文)
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Although the number of part-time workers in the Japanese labor market continues to grow, for a long time part-time workers were not allowed to join enterprise-based unions. Nowadays, the proportion of part-time workers in unions is gradually increasing, especially in the retail industry, due to the unions' need to maintain membership. But unionizing part-time workers could be seen by managers as representing a step towards more constructive relations with part-time workers. This paper examines the leaders of unions with part-time workers, and their attempts to improve part-time workers' working conditions. The findings are based on 10 in-depth interviews with the leaders of retail industry unions that include part-time workers. The paper concludes that leaders of unions that include part-time workers (who are all female in these cases) have strongly internalized gender role norms. I argue that this internalization occurs because the women workers are treated primarily as wives/mothers with family responsibilities, and only secondly as union members and workers. They willingly accept subordinate positions to their husbands at home, to regular (full-time) workers at the workplace, and to regular union members in the union, but nonetheless express satisfaction with their situation. My findings suggest that even if the work conditions of part-time workers have more or less improved since their inclusion into the enterprise unions, union leaders representing part-time workers are less likely to push for improving part-time workers' working conditions if they do not let go of the gender role norms existing in enterprise unions.
- 社会政策学会の論文
- 2007-03-31