NEW PUBLICATIONS

	Koichi Hasegawa and Naoki Yoshihara (eds), Globalization, Minorities and Civil Society: Perspectives from Asian and Western Cities (Paperback)    [ more ] Price: $59.95 One effect of globalization has been urban restructuring in various cities of Asia, increasing migration from Asia to European cities and the intensification of debates about citizenship. The multi-dimensional constellations of ethnic minorities in Asian and European cities have become increasingly divided, stratified and segmented.
	Mutsuhiko Shima (ed.), Status and Stratification: Cultural Forms in East ans Southeast Asia (Paperback)    [ more ] Price: $59.95 Exploring the myriad ways that status and stratification manifest in different cultural contexts, this collection presents in-depth studies of a variety of cultural forms in Asia. These studies are based upon culturally-sensitive qualitative fieldwork and thus offer a much deeper understanding of these phenomena than conventional quantitative studies.
	Reiko Kosugi, Escape from Work: Freelancing Youth and the Challenge to Corporate Japan (Paperback)    [ more ] Price: $54.95 Globalization and heightened competition have accelerated the casualization of work in Japan. Kosugi documents the increase in the number of causal workers in Japan over the past two decades and looks at their demographics. Based on rich interview data and extensive surveys, Kosugi brings together the findings of a large research project carried out in the early years of this century. The study explores ways in which the furitaa, young persons falling outside the normal pattern in making the transition from school to employment, might better be incorporated into Japan's world of regular, full-time employment.
	Ryoji Ihara, Toyota's Assembly Line: A View from the Factory Floor (Paperback)    [ more ] Price: $54.95 Any dedicated Toyota driver and admirer of the Toyota Production System will be shocked to read of Ryoji Ihara's experience as a casual worker in a Toyota factory in Japan. As Toyota Motor Corporation continues its inexorable march to become the world's biggest and most profitable carmaker, workers on the factory floor are making sacrifices under the appalling conditions. Ihara's book is both a fearless expose and a meticulous academic study firmly situated within the context of the sociology of labor. The work is written in a relaxed, entertaining style that should appeal to any reader with an interest in car making, the sociology of work or Japanese society in general.
	Ryoji Soda, People on the Move: Rural-Urban Interactions in Sarawak    [ more ] Price: $109.95 Based on a decade of observation and interviews in a Sarawak village, Ryoji Soda examines out-migration from the village. The themes include: the migrants' living strategies in urban areas; their frequent moves between rural and urban areas; and kinship relations between rural and urban residents.
	Takashi Inoguchi and Matthew Carlson (eds), Governance and Democracy in Asia (Paperback)    [ more ] Price: $54.95 Inoguchi and Carlson have assembled a team of prominent experts from around Asia to chart and explain what is happening and how people feel about it. This is a fresh and powerful perspective on politics in Asia.