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"""Our Unions, Our Selves is well conceived, organized, and written. Anne Zacharias-Walsh presents new information on women-only unions and also advances theoretical discussion on how women can organize to improve their material well-being. It will be of great interest to readers outside its intended audience of unionists, activists, and students.""-Kaye Broadbent, Griffith University, author of Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers ""Anne Zacharias-Walsh's account of women's unions in Japan and the interactions of women activists with their U.S. counterparts sheds light on two largely overlooked aspects of the Japanese labor movement: the labor activism of working women and individually affiliated unions.""-Akira Suzuki, Hosei University, editor of Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States ""Trade unions in Japan, like their counterparts in America, face the challenge of organizing workers long excluded from collective bargaining because they're low-income, part-timers, or independent contractors. Anne Zacharias-Walsh shows how Japanese feminists tackled this problem by creating new community-based labor formations. Both the setbacks and success of these organizations provide important lessons for workers' center activists and alternative union builders in our country.""-Steve Early, former organizer, Communications Workers of America, author of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress"

Our Unions, Our Selves is well conceived, organized, and written. Anne Zacharias-Walsh presents new information on women-only unions and also advances theoretical discussion on how women can organize to improve their material well-being. It will be of great interest to readers outside its intended audience of unionists, activists, and students. -Kaye Broadbent, Griffith University, author of Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers Anne Zacharias-Walsh's account of women's unions in Japan and the interactions of women activists with their U.S. counterparts sheds light on two largely overlooked aspects of the Japanese labor movement: the labor activism of working women and individually affiliated unions. -Akira Suzuki, Hosei University, editor of Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States

Our Unions, Our Selves is well conceived, organized, and written. Anne Zacharias-Walsh presents new information on women-only unions and also advances theoretical discussion on how women can organize to improve their material well-being. It will be of great interest to readers outside its intended audience of unionists, activists, and students. -Kaye Broadbent, Griffith University, author of Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers Anne Zacharias-Walsh's account of women's unions in Japan and the interactions of women activists with their U.S. counterparts sheds light on two largely overlooked aspects of the Japanese labor movement: the labor activism of working women and individually affiliated unions. -Akira Suzuki, Hosei University, editor of Cross-National Comparisons of Social Movement Unionism: Diversities of Labour Movement Revitalization in Japan, Korea and the United States Trade unions in Japan, like their counterparts in America, face the challenge of organizing workers long excluded from collective bargaining because they're low-income, part-timers, or independent contractors. Anne Zacharias-Walsh shows how Japanese feminists tackled this problem by creating new community-based labor formations. Both the setbacks and success of these organizations provide important lessons for workers' center activists and alternative union builders in our country. -Steve Early, former organizer, Communications Workers of America, author of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress

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Anne Zacharias-Walsh is an activist and writer who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked with progressive labor unions and social justice organizations and campaigns throughout the United States and Japan for more than twenty-five years.

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