Our unions, our selves: the rise of feminist labor unions in Japan

Table of Content

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part 1 JAPANESE WOMEN’S UNIONS

1. A Union of One’s Own 17
2. A Tale of Two Activists 31
3. Womens Union Tokyo in Practice 42
Part 2 US-JAPAN CROSSBORDER COLLABORATION
4. First, We Drink Tea 57
5. Under the Microscope 84
6. Crisis of Difference 108
7. Made in Japan 133
8. A Movement Transformed 151

Conclusion: Lessons for Building Crossborder
Collaborations 165
Appendix A: Characteristics of Common Nonregular
Forms of Employment 185
Appendix B: Curriculum Wish Lists 187
Appendix C: Why Japanese Women “Can’t” Organize 193
Notes 197
References 207
Index 211

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 international solidarity
project that helped to spark a new feminist labor movement.

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