2018 Volume 9 Issue 3 Pages 77-88
The purpose of this article is to examine the employment relationship of dispatch workers and employees of outsourcing companies in the manufacturing industry. As the number of such workers increased rapidly from the early 2000’s, their work conditions gained national attention due to the problem of “disguised contracting” and the Haken―mura campaign. Although the labor campaign involving these workers had a large social impact, it has rarely been analyzed. This article focuses especially on the organization of these workers through the process of individual conflict resolution.In order to conduct the analysis, I focused on the following two points : 1） the tension between the strategies focused primarily on organizing within particular companies and those focused on individual membership, and 2） the effect of the legal framework on organizing strategies. In theory, there can be multiple organizing strategies, but since the 2008 financial crisis, many campaigns began to use lawsuits to demand direct hiring of workers and cash payments for dismissed workers.
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