Advani, Anuradha G., "The Development of South Asian American Labor Organizing," Positions: East Asian Cultures Critique 5:2 (1997):589-604. Labor organizing among South Asian immigrants, especially among New York City cabdrivers and domestic workers.

AFL-CIO, Asian Pacific Americans in the Workforce (Washington, D.C.: AFL-CIO Publications and Materials Office, 1993). Pamphlet describing work of the AFL-CIO on behalf of Asian Pacific American workers and union members.

Aggarwal, Pramila, "Business as Usual in the Factory," Resources for Feminist Research 16:1 (March 1987):42-43. Reaction of South Asian immigrant women to a union organizing campaign in Canada.

Ahlburg, Dennis A., "Poverty among Pacific Islanders in the United States: Incidence, Change, and Correlates," Pacific Studies 23:1/2 (March-June 2000):51-74. Analyzes high poverty rates of Pacific Islanders.

Akhter, Nargis, Nahar Alam, and Anannya Bhattacharjee, "Behind Swinging Door: South Asian Restaurant Workers Speak," Samar, South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection 12 (Fall/Winter 2000):10-15. South Asian immigrant workers in New York.

Alam, Nahar, "Domestic Workers Do their Homework," Samar, South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection 8 (Summer/Fall 1997). South Asian immigrant domestic workers organize in New York.

Aliani, Shahbano, Shahenshah Begum, Rokeya Mollah, and Sushila Patil with Biju Mathew, "Loud and Clear: A Conversation with Workers’ Awaaz," Amerasia Journal 25:3 (1999/2000):183-193. Interview with leaders of Workers Awaaz, a South Asian immigrant workers center focusing on domestic and other low-wage workers.

Andreas, Carol, "Monfort’s Disposable Meatpackers," CovertAction (Fall 1994):34-38+. Dangerous working condition in U.S. meatpacking industry where large numbers of Southeast Asian immigrants work.

Antush, John, "Chinese Workers Defeat Silver Palace Lockout," Against the Current (July/August 1994):8-11. Chinese immigrant independent restaurant workers union in New York Chinatown.

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, Immigrant Women Speak Out on Garment Industry Abuse: Testimony and Recommendations, Oakland, California, 1993. Includes workers’ testimonies, elected officials’ comments, and resolutions of support passed by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and the Berkeley and Oakland city councils.

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, Building On Our Past, Rising Up in Unity toward Our Future: Celebrating Asian Immigrant Women Workers, Oakland, California, 1998. Booklet summarizing accomplishments of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bachu, Amara, "Indian Nurses in the United States," International Nursing Review 20:4 (1973). Migration of nurses from India to the U.S.

Bacon, David, "Down (and Out) in the Valley," LA Village View (June 17-23, 1994):6+. Plant closures in California’s Silicon Valley conductor industry; includes interviews with Filipino immigrant workers.

Bacon, David, "The Underside of Technology: Silicon Valley Immigrant Workers Fight Sweatshop Conditions," San Francisco Bay Guardian (January 27, 1993):18-21. Includes information on labor exploitation of Asian immigrant workers and contract laborers.

Bales, K., Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Degradation of living conditions for people worldwide due to corporate globalization.

Banks, Andy, "The Power and Promise of Community Unionism," Labor Research Review 18 (1992):16-31. Includes some information about a campaign involving Vietnamese workers in Northern California by the Association for Workplace Justice.

Bardacke, Frank, "Cesar’s Ghost: The Decline and Fall of the U.F.W.," Nation (July 26 — August 2, 1993):130-135. Includes some information on the role of Philip Vera Cruz in the United Farm Workers union.

Batongbacal, Edwin, "Tagalog Troubles: Language Discrimination in the Workplace," Katipunan (June 1989):13-14. Filipino immigrant workers confront language discrimination.

Battistella, Graziano, ed., Human Rights of Migrant Workers: Agenda for NGOs (Quezon City, Philippines: Scalabrini Migration Center, 1993. Presents an agenda of rights for migrant workers and the key role of non-governmental organizations in supporting these rights.

Battistella, Graziano and Anthony Paganoni, eds, Asian Women in Migration (Quezon City, Philippines: Scalabrini Migration Center, 1998). Examines migrant workers from Asia throughout the world.

Benson, Janet E., "Staying Alive: Economic Strategies among Immigrant Packing Plant Workers in Three Southwest Kansas Communities," Kansas Quarterly 25:2 (1994):107-120. Study of Latino, Lao, and Vietnamese immigrants.

Bernard, Sarah, "Strike Two," New York 31:21 (June 1, 1998):15-16. New York City taxi workers strike led by South Asian immigrants.

Bigman, Paul, "Strategies for Organizing Immigrant Workers," Labor Notes (July 1986):11+. Presents strategies that traditional unions can use to respond to changing U.S. demographics in the workforce, especially growth of immigrant populations.

Bonacich, Edna, "Alienation among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the Los Angeles Garment Industry: The Need for New Forms of Class Struggle in the Late Twentieth Century," in Geyer, Felix and Wlater R. Heinz, eds., Alienation, Society, and the Individual (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1992). Examines exploitation of immigrant workers in the Los Angeles garment industry.

Bonacich, Edna, "Reflections on Asian American Labor," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):xxi-xxvii. Argues that focus of Asian American Studies has shifted from an earlier emphasis on working-class issues to issues facing professionals.

Bonacich, Edna and Richard Appelbaum, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). Examines the structure of the garment industry and analyzes the causes of exploitation of immigrant workers.

Bonacich, Edna, Lucie Cheng, Norma Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton, and Paul Ong, eds., Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). Examines the growth of the garment industry in terms of globalization.

Boris, Eileen and Elisabeth Prügl, eds., Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (New York: Routledge, 1996). Exploitation of migrant domestic workers throughout the world.

Brecher, Jeremy and Tim Costello, eds., Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalitions of Labor and Community (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1990). Includes articles by Patricia Lee on Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 2 in San Francisco Bay Area and John Kuo Wei Tchen on a coalition between Chinatown and Harlem residents in New York City.

"A Brief History of Union Organizing in Hawaii," APALA News (Newsletter of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance) (Spring 2001):1-5. Labor activism in Hawai‘i.

"Building on Diversity: The New Unionism," Labor Research Review 20 (1993). Special theme issue on strategies of union leaders to promote diversity and ethnic awareness within their unions.

Cacas, Samuel R., "The People United Will Never Be Defeated: Steve Chin Is Striking in His Role as Asian Labor Leader," AsianWeek (November 18, 1994):1+. San Francisco Chronicle reporter and his role as a union leader during newspaper strike.

Chang, Grace, Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy (Cambridge: South End Press, 2000). Exploitation of migrant workers throughout the world.

Chang, Grace, "The Global Trade in Filipina Workers," in Shah, Sonia, ed., Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (Boston: South End Press, 1997), 132-152. Exploitation of women workers from the Philippines throughout the world.

Chang, Mel and Margaret Hallock, "Changing to Organize in a Multiethnic Union: The Role of Education at ILWU 142," Labor Studies Journal 25:2 (Summer 2000):75-98. ILWU Local 142 in Hawai‘i has a history of organizing in key economic sectors, from docks to sugar to tourism.

Chansanchai, Athima, "Maid in the USA," Village Voice (October 7, 1997). Exploitation of South Asian immigrant domestic workers.

Chen, May Ying, "Reaching for Their Rights: Asian Workers in New York City," in Adler, Glenn and Doris Suarez, eds., Union Voices: Labor’s Responses to Crisis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993). Chinese immigrant garment workers in New York Chinatown.

Cheng, Cliff, "Are Asian American Employees a Model Minority or Just a Minority?" The Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences 33:3 (1997):277-290. Examines status of Asian Americans in the workforce in terms of the Model Minority stereotype.

Chinatown Youth Leadership Project, Chinatown Community Needs Assessment (Philadelphia: Asian Americans United, Summer 2000). Interviews and surveys conducted by Chinatown youth; identifies critical problems relating to low-wage jobs, unsafe working conditions, and substandard housing in Philadelphia Chinatown.

Chinese Staff and Worker Association, "Will Slave Labor End at Jing Fong?" CSWA News 5:2 (Fall 1997):4. Organizing campaign to create an independent restaurant workers’ union in New York Chinatown.

Chin, "Ko-Lin, Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999). Exploitation of immigrant laborers from China.

Chinen, Joyce, "Hawaii’s Garment Workers at Work and at Home," Race, Gender and Class 4:3 (1997):165-179. Immigrant garment workers in Hawai‘i.

Chinen, Joyce, "Internationalization of Capital, Migration, Reindustrialization, and Women Workers in the Garment Industry," Social Process in Hawaii 35 (1994):85-102. Garment workers in Hawai‘i.

Chinen, Karleen, Arnold Hiura, and Wayne Murumoto, "Whither Hawaii’s Unions?" Hawaii Herald 7:17 (September 5, 1986):1+. Decline of union power in Hawai‘i.

Chinese Progressive Association, "Garment Workers Support Committee Statement," Boston, November 1, 1986. A collection of statements by supporters of Chinese immigrants garment workers in Boston at a victory celebration for workers winning retraining job benefits following a plant shutdown.

Cho, Mil Young, "Immigrant Workers Fight History’s Vicious Cycle of Exploitation," AsianWeek (July 2, 1993):1+. Focus on the work of the Chinese Staff and Workers Association in New York.

Cho, Mil Young, "Overcoming Our Legacy as Cheap Labor, Scabs, and Model Minorities," in San Juan, Karin Aguilar, ed., The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s (Boston: South End Press, 1994). Includes information on labor activism by Asian immigrants.

Cho, Namju, "Check Out, Not In: Koreana Wilshire/Hyatt Takeover and the Los Angeles Korean Community," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):131-139. Solidarity efforts provided to HERE Local 11 (hotel and restaurant workers union) by Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates in Los Angeles when a corporation from Korea bought a hotel and initially refused to negotiate with union representatives for protection of the largely Latino immigrant workforce.

Choy, Catherine Ceniza, "The Export of Womanpower: A Transnational History of Filipino Nurse Migration to the United States," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998. Examines concentration of Filipina immigrants in nursing in the U.S.

Chu, Flora, "Dangers in the Workplace: Asian Workers at Risk," Race, Poverty & the Environment (Spring 1992):10+. Health and safety concerns facing Asian immigrant workers.

Churchill, Thomas, Triumph Over Marcos: A Story Based on the Lives of Gene Viernes & Silme Domingo, Filipino American Cannery Union Organizers, Their Assassination, and the Trial That Followed (Seattle: Open Hand Publications, 1995). Murder of two Filipino American labor activists in Seattle by Marcos hitmen.

Cinco, Maria Cristina M., "Who Takes Care of the Care Giver?" Filipinas (September 1994):16-18. Filipino American homecare workers.

Cleto, Pet, "Intercede: Empowering Domestic Workers in Canada," Filipinas (July 1992):48. Exploitation of immigrant domestic workers in Canada.

Craft, J. A., "The Community as a Source of Union Power," Journal of Labor Research 11 (Spring 1990):145-160. Community-based union organizing.