Rising Suns, Rising Daughters

Rising Suns, Rising Daughters
Title Rising Suns, Rising Daughters PDF eBook
Author Joanna Liddle
Publisher Zed Books
Pages 356
Release 2000-12
Genre History
ISBN 9781856498791

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Surprisingly little is known in the West about Japanese women. Exploring themes of gender and class, this book traces the changing position of women through history and into the present. Repudiating the cliche of the submissive Japanese woman, the authors show women as active agents in both family and public life. The women's liberation movement of recent years resonates with echoes of struggle and resistance from earlier times. The broader movements of history and culture are brought into focus within the experiences of individual women.

War and Sex

War and Sex
Title War and Sex PDF eBook
Author John V. H. Dippel
Publisher Prometheus Books
Pages 466
Release 2011-09-27
Genre History
ISBN 1616143134

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Dippel reviews social circumstances leading up to conflicts from the American Civil War through the Vietnam War and the current clash with Islamic fundamentalists, and explores how tensions over gender roles affect men's willingness to go to war.

Our Unions, Our Selves

Our Unions, Our Selves
Title Our Unions, Our Selves PDF eBook
Author Anne Zacharias-Walsh
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 237
Release 2016-08-03
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1501706896

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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.In the early 1990s, as part of a larger wave of union reform efforts in Japan, women began creating their own women-only labor unions to confront long-standing gender inequality in the workplace and in traditional enterprise unions. These new unions soon discovered that the demand for individual assistance and help at the bargaining table dramatically exceeded the rate at which the unions could recruit and train members to meet that demand. Within just a few years, women-only unions were proving to be both the most effective option women had for addressing problems on the job and in serious danger of dying out because of their inability to grow their organizational capacity.Zacharias-Walsh met up with Japanese women's unions at a critical moment in their struggle to survive. Recognizing the benefits of a cross-national dialogue, they teamed up to host a multiyear international exchange project that brought together U.S. and Japanese activists and scholars to investigate the links between organizational structure and the day-to-day problems nontraditional unions face, and to develop Japan-specific participatory labor education as a way to organize and empower new generations of members. They also gained valuable insights into the fine art of building and maintaining the kinds of collaborative, cross border relationships that are essential to today’s social justice movements, from global efforts to save the environment to the Fight for $15 and Black Lives Matter.

Assembling Work

Assembling Work
Title Assembling Work PDF eBook
Author Tony Elger
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 425
Release 2005-04-07
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199241511

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Ultimately the authors show how arguments about the role of overseas branch plants in the dissemination of management practices must take more careful account of the varied ways in which such factories are implicated in wider corporate strategies. The operations of international firms are embedded within intractable features of capitalist employment relations, especially as they are 're-made' in specific local and national settings.

From Where We Stand

From Where We Stand
Title From Where We Stand PDF eBook
Author Cynthia Cockburn
Publisher Zed Books Ltd.
Pages 257
Release 2013-07-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1848136781

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This original study examines women's activism against war in areas as far apart as Sierra Leone, India, Colombia and Palestine. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel addressing racism and refusing enmity and describes international networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called 'war on terror'. These movements, though diverse, are generating an antimilitarist feminism that challenges how war and militarism are understood, both in academic studies and the mainstream anti-war movement. Gender, particularly the form taken by masculinity in a violent sex/gender system, is inseparably linked to economic and ethno-national factors in the perpetuation of war.

"We are the Mods"

Title "We are the Mods" PDF eBook
Author Christine Jacqueline Feldman
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 268
Release 2009
Genre Art
ISBN 9781433103698

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"Drawing on archival research, oral history interviews, and participant observation, this examination of the adoption and adaptation of Mod style across geographic space also maps its various interpretations over time, from the early 1960s to the present. The book traces the Mod youth culture from its genesis in the dimly lit clubs of London's Soho. where it began as a way for young people to reconfigure modernity after the chaos of World War II, to its contemporary, country-specific expressions. By examining Mod culture in the United States, Germany, and Japan alongside the United Kingdom, "We Are the Mods" contrasts the postwar development of Mod in those countries that lost the war with those that won. The book illuminates the culture's fashion, music, iconography, and gender aesthetics, to create a compelling portrait of a transnational subculture." --Book Jacket.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Title Annual Report PDF eBook
Author Virginia. State Corporation Commission
Publisher
Pages 634
Release 1913
Genre Communication and traffic
ISBN

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