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Asian Pacific American Labor Organizing: An Annotated Bibliography, Part II: Contemporary Struggles from the 1960s

By Glenn Omatsu

Section D to G:

Dalal, Anaga, "Cleaning Up Exploitation," Ms. Magazine 8:5 (March-April 1998):12. Focus on Workers’ Awaaz, an advocacy group for low-wage South Asian immigrant women workers.

Dasgupta, Shamita Das, "Is All Well with Domestic Workers in the United States?" Samar, South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection 11 (Spring/Summer 1999):5-1l. Exploitation of South Asian domestic workers in New York.

Davis Mike, "Kajima’s Throne of Blood," Nation (February 12, 1996):18-20. Japanese American activists join with Latino immigrants for campaign to unionize New Otani Hotel in Los Angeles Little Tokyo; the owner of the hotel, Kajima Corporation, has a "bloody history," including the slaughter of Chinese workers during World War II.

Day, Susan, "New Ways of Organizing in Manhattan," Z Magazine (March 1993):19-21. Union organizing drive at Shinwa Restaurant in New York City involving a multiethnic workforce.

Defreitas, Gregory, "Unionization among Racial and Ethnic Minorities," Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46:2 (January 1993):284-301. Overview of unionization efforts in the contemporary period among racial and ethnic minorities.

Delgado, Gary, How the Empress Gets New Clothes: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates vs. Jessica McClintock Inc. (Oakland: Applied Research Center, 1994). Analysis of campaign by Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area against exploitation of Chinese immigrant garment workers by manufacturer and retailer Jessica McClintock.

Delgado, Gary, "Independent Labor Organizations To Their Way," Minority Trendsletter 4:3 (Summer 1991):6-7. Includes information about Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in Oakland.

"The Difficulties and Promise of Labor and Community Alliances," New Labor Forum 5 (Fall/Winter 1999):39-77. Essays by Robin D. G. Kelley, Angela Glover Blackwell and Kalima Rose and Dan Swinney.

Doherty, Jack, "Activists Train to Aid Korean Workers, City Times, Los Angeles Times (July 4, 1993). Workshop sponsored by Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates in Los Angeles.

Drier, Peter and Doug Henwood, "The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement," American Prospect 10:45 (1999). Students organize against sweatshops and globalization.

Durán, Lisa, Bill Gallegos, Eric Mann, and Glenn Omatsu, eds., Immigrant Rights and Wrongs (Los Angeles: Labor/Community Strategy Center, 1994). In a period of growing anti-immigrant sentiment in California, the authors address contradictions in the U.S. progressive movement on issues relating to immigrant rights.

Dutt, Mallika, Leni Marin, and Helen Zia, eds., Migrant Women’s Human Rights in G-7 Countries: Organizing Strategies (San Francisco and New York: Family Violence Prevention Fund and Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1997). Exploitation of women migrant workers in the global economy.

Ejera, Bert, "Organized Labor Wants You: After Decades of Overt Exclusion, Big Labor Opens Its Doors to Asian Americans," AsianWeek (August 30, 1996):13-15. Formation of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in AFL-CIO.

English, T. J., "Slaving Away," Village Voice (February 5, 1991):11-14. Chinese "undocumented" immigrants in New York City.

Esbenshade, Jill, "The Social Accountability Contract: Private Monitoring from Los Angeles to Global Apparel Industry," Labor Studies Journal 26:1 (Spring 2001):98-120. For the author, the "social accountability contract" is a pact between employers, their contractors, and the government.

Feng, Theresa and Shirley Mark Yuen, "Through Strength and Struggle: A Victory for Garment Workers in Boston," East Wind (Spring/Summer 1987). Labor-community solidarity in Boston Chinatown to protect rights of immigrant garment workers.

Foo, Lora, "The Role of Asians in the Recent Struggles of the San Francisco Culinary Industry," Yellow Journal 1:2 (Spring 1986):21-38. Focuses on the role of Asian American labor activists in the hotel and restaurant workers union.

Foo, Lora, "The Vulnerable and Exploitable Immigrant Workforce and the Need for Strengthening Worker Protective Legislation," Yale Law Journal 103:8 (June 1994):2179-2212. Exploitation of immigrant workers and the need for new labor legislation.

Franco, R., A Demographic Assessment of the Samoan Employment Situation in Hawaii (Honolulu: Hawai‘i State Department of Planning and Economic Development, 1984). Describes Samoan employment patterns in Hawai‘i.

Franco, R., Samoan Perceptions of Work: Moving Up and Moving Ahead (New York: AMS Press, 1985). Samoan employment patterns.

"From the Grassroots: Perspectives from Asian Pacific American Labor Activists," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):95-156. Personal perspectives on labor organizing by Pam Tau Lee, Sumi Haru, Daniel C. Tsang, Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates, Jo Yang, David Takami of International Examiner in Seattle, Cindy Domingo, Namju Cho, Alex Hing, Kent Wong, and Philip Vera Cruz.

Fujita, Stephen S. and David J. O’Brien, "Economics, Ideology and Ethnicity: The Struggle Between the United Farmworkers Union and the Nisei Farmers League," Social Problems 25 (1977). Conflict between farmworkers union and Japanese American small farmers in Central Valley of California.

Galedo, Lilian and Theresa Quilenderino Mar, "Filipinos in a Farm Labor Camp," in Letters in Exile: An Introductory Reader on the History of Pilipinos in America (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976). Description of conditions in farm labor camps for Filipino immigrants in the early 1970s.

"The Global Factory," Connexions, An International Women’s Quarterly 44 (1994). Special theme issue on the impact of globalization on women in specific nations.

Gordon, Jennifer, "Immigrants Fight the Power: Workers Centers Are One Path to Labor Organizing and Political Participation," Nation (January 3, 2000):16-20. Description of efforts of workers centers as vehicles for worker organizing.

Gordon, Jennifer (interview), "Organizing Low-Wage Immigrants," Working USA, the Journal of Labor and Society 5:1 (Summer 2001):87-102. Union strategies for organizing immigrant workers.

Gordon, Jesse and Knickerbocker, "The Sweat Behind the Shirt: The Labor History of a Gap Sweatshirt," Nation (September 3-10, 2001):14. Chart tracing the production of a sweatshirt.

Gourevitch, Alexander, "No Justice, No Contract: The Worker Rights Consortium Leads the Fight Against Sweatshops," American Prospect (June 29, 2001). Mobilizing to support rights of immigrant garment workers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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