1. Introduction 2. Haken: A New Non-Regular Labour Force and a Booming Industry 3. Working as a Haken in a Triangular Employment Relationship 4. Haken in Historical Perspective 5. Haken in the 'Gap-Widening' Society 6. The Search for Meaningful Work 7. Conclusion: Haken’s ‘Symbolic’ Values
Huiyan Fu is Visiting Professor of International Business at Aalen University, Germany.
"This timely and excellent analysis of the changing employment system in Japan greatly improves our understanding of what it is like to be a dispatched worker (haken) in contemporary Japan and discourse about nonregular employment, of which haken is only one of various categories such as temporary, contract, part-time, etc."- Jeff Kingston is director of Asian Studies, Temple University Japan; The Japan Times: Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011
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