The trade union response to migrant workers

The issue of foreign workers has recently become the focus of concern for a number of individual researchers and other institutions (government, trade unions and academics). ¹ Until 1987 this issue was taken up in one or two articles per month in the Monthly Bibliography of Labour Publications, compiled by the Ōhara Institute for Social Research of Hosei University, and published in the Monthly Journal of the Japan Institute of Labour. Since 1988 this figure has gradually risen to more than ten articles per month.