A Brief Analysis of the Present Situation of the Research on Excessive Labor

Abstract

Abstract. The study of the problem of over labor in China is mainly derived from Japan, so the paper will separate Europe and the United States alone in the analysis of foreign research progress. For the convenience of comparison, the research of overwork problem in Japan and Europe and the United States are divided into three aspects, including Origin and definition of the study on overwork, focus of the overwork study and the influencing factors of the overwork. The paper elaborates the research status of China from five aspects, including origin, research object, measurement, influencing factors and the consequences. According to the data of "2015 China Labor Statistics Yearbook", finds that the research of China's overwork can be carried out from the following four aspects: expand and further the research object, standardize the excessive labor scale, increase the analysis factor of gender, strengthen the measuring analysis of the economic loss caused by overwork.