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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466020703321

Autore

Zacharias-Walsh Anne

Titolo

Our unions, our selves : the rise of feminist labor unions in Japan / / Anne Zacharias-Walsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-5017-0689-6

1-5017-0636-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

331.88082/0952

Soggetti

Women labor union members - Japan

Women in the labor movement - Japan

Sex discrimination in employment - Japan

Sex role in the work environment - Japan

Feminism - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A union of one's own -- A tale of two activists -- Women's Union Tokyo in practice -- First, we drink tea -- Under the microscope -- Crisis of difference -- Made in Japan -- A movement transformed.

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143966603321

Titolo

Catalytic antibodies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ehud Keinan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH

[Chichester, : John Wiley], 2005

ISBN

1-280-52020-5

9786610520206

3-527-60366-2

3-527-60505-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (618 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeinanEhud

Disciplina

571.967

616.0798

Soggetti

Monoclonal antibodies

Antibody-enzyme conjugates

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Catalytic Antibodies; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; List of



Contributors; 1 Immunological Evolution of Catalysis; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Parallels between Antibody and Enzyme Evolution; 1.3 Evolution of Catalytic Antibodies; 1.4 Ferrochelatase Antibody 7G12 - Evolution of the Strain Mechanism; 1.5 Esterase Antibody 48G7 - Effect of Distant Mutations on Catalysis; 1.6 Sulfur Oxidase Antibody 28B4 - Incremental Changes in Evolution; 1.7 Oxy-Cope Antibody AZ28 - Evolution of Conformational Diversity in Catalysis

1.8 Diels-Alderase Antibody 39A11 - Evolution of a Polyspecific Antibody combining Site1.9 Conclusions; References; 2 Critical Analysis of Antibody Catalysis; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Exploiting Antibodies as Catalysts; 2.3 Catalytic Efficiency; 2.4 Hapten Design; 2.5 Representative Catalytic Antibodies; 2.5.1 Proximity Effects; 2.5.1.1 Sigmatropic Rearrangements; 2.5.1.2 Cycloadditions; 2.5.2 Strain; 2.5.2.1 Ferrochelatase Mimics; 2.5.2.2 Other Systems; 2.5.3 Electrostatic Catalysis; 2.5.3.1 Acyl Transfer Reactions; 2.5.4 Functional Groups; 2.5.4.1 Aldolases; 2.6 Perspectives

2.6.1 General Lessons from Comparisons of Enzymes and Antibodies2.6.2 How efficient does catalysis need to be?; 2.6.3 Strategies for Optimizing Efficiency; 2.6.3.1 Better Haptens; 2.6.3.2 Screening; 2.6.3.3 Engineering; 2.6.3.4 Selection; 2.6.3.5 Other Scaffolds; 2.7 Conclusions; References; 3 Theoretical Studies of Antibody Catalysis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Questions Subject to Theoretical Elucidation; 3.2.1 Predicting Antibody Structure from Sequence; 3.2.2 Predicting Binding Modes and Binding Energies; 3.2.3 Understanding Antibody Catalysis [14]; 3.2.4 General Considerations

3.3 Hydrolytic Antibodies3.3.1 Gas and Solution Phase Hydrolysis of Aryl Esters; 3.3.2 Hapten Fidelity; 3.3.3 Theoretical Exploration of Antibody Catalysis; 3.3.3.1 16G3; 3.3.3.2 6D9; 3.3.3.3 43C9; 3.3.3.4 CNJ206; 3.3.3.5 48G7; 3.3.3.6 17E8 and 29G11; 3.4 Cationic Cyclizations; 3.4.1 Antibody Catalysis of Solvolysis; 3.4.2 Antibody-Catalyzed Hydroxyepoxide Cyclization; 3.5 Antibody-Catalyzed Diels-Alder and retro-Diels-Alder Reactions; 3.5.1 The Most Efficient endo-Diels-Alderase 1E9; 3.5.2 endo-Diels-Alderase 39A11 and its Germline Precursor; 3.5.3 exo-Diels-Alderase 13G5

3.5.4 retro-Diels-Alderase 10F113.6 Other Antibody-Catalyzed Pericyclic Reactions; 3.6.1 Oxy-Cope Rearrangement Catalyzed by Antibody AZ-28; 3.6.2 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Catalyzed by Antibody 29G12; 3.6.3 Chorismate-Prephenate Claisen Rearrangement Catalyzed by Antibody 1F7; 3.7 Antibody-Catalyzed Carboxybenzisoxazole Decarboxylation; 3.8 Summary; References; 4 The Enterprise of Catalytic Antibodies: A Historical Perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Methods; 4.3 Results; 4.3.1 The Conceptual Origins of Catalytic Antibodies; 4.3.2 Tapping the Immune System for Catalysts; 4.4 Conclusions

References

Sommario/riassunto

Exploiting the inherent combinatorial mechanism in the biosynthesis of antibodies, an almost limitless variety of biocatalysts may be generated. Catalytic antibodies are capable of performing almost any type of reaction with high selectivity and stereospecificity.Here, the pioneers in the use of catalytic antibodies review the entire scope of this interdisciplinary field, covering such topics as:* theoretical aspects of structure, mechanism and kinetics* practical considerations, from immunization techniques to screening methods* in vitro evolution and other modern approaches<b