Our Unions, Our Selves : : The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan / / Anne Zacharias-Walsh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Zacharias-Walsh, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 4 charts

In Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice, and a firsthand account of the ambitious, occasionally contentious, and ultimately successful internati...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1. Japanese women’s unions
• 1. A Union of One’s Own
• 2. A Tale of Two Activists
• 3. Women’s Union Tokyo in Practice
• Part 2. US-Japan Crossborder Collaboration
• 4. First, We Drink Tea
• 5. Under the Microscope
• 6. Crisis of Difference
• 7. Made in Japan
• 8. A Movement Transformed
• Conclusion: Lessons for Building Crossborder Collaborations
• Appendix A: Characteristics of Common Nonregular Forms of Employment
• Appendix B: Curriculum Wish Lists
• Appendix C: Why Japanese Women “Can’t” Organize
• Notes
• References
• Index