Social movement unionism in contemporary Japan: Coalitions within and across political boundaries
研究了日本工会在处理蓝领临时工解雇纠纷时，如何通过灵活谈判形成联盟，跨越全国性工会联合会和政治党派界限，并借助公民社会团体重建联合力量。
This article on social movement unionism in Japan examines the particular ways in which labor unions form coalitions when undertaking disputes that concern the dismissal of blue-collar temporary agency workers. The triangular employment arrangement nullified the right of labor unions that represent the temporary agency workers to bargain with the user corporations. Against this predicament, labor unions formed alliances by flexibly negotiating the divisions that exist among labor. Labor unions in Japan are largely grouped under national labor federations and by their ties to political parties. Labor unions formed coalitions within the federation boundaries but also found creative ways to bridge across federation membership in an effort to rebuild its associational power. Civil society groups served as a glue that drew in unions across national federation memberships.