Ha,
Daisy, "An Analysis and Critique of KIWAs Reform
Efforts in the Los Angeles Korean American Restaurant Industry,"
Asian Law Journal 8:1 (May 2001):111-152. Koreatown
restaurant worker organizing in Los Angeles by Korean Immigrant
Workers Advocates.
Hamilton,
Denise, "The Girls Next Door: A Sex-Slavery Scandal,"
LA Weekly, February 16-22, 1996):22-28. Asian women
working as sex slaves in Rosemead in Los Angeles County.
Hayashi,
Dennis, "Preventing Human Rights Abuses in the U.S.
Garment Industry: A Proposed Amendment to the Fair Labor
Standards Act," Yale Journal of International Law
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Hazell,
Rebecca, "Iqbal Masih: An Activist for Human Rights,"
in The Barefoot Book of Heroic Children, with illustrations
by Helen Cann (New York: Barefoot Books, 2000). Describes
the activism of Pakistani child laborer Iqbal Masih and
his efforts against Pakistans "rug mafia"
and his subsequent assassination by a death squad; also
describes the activism of Craig Kielburger of Ontario, then
ten-years-old, who organized against worldwide child exploitation.
Helm,
Leslie, "Creating High-Tech Sweatshops," Los
Angeles Times (November 15, 1993):A1+. U.S. companies
recruit skilled and "cheap" programmers from abroad,
including technicians from India and China.
Henry,
Susan, "Labor and Lace: Can an Upstart Womens
Group Press a New Wrinkle into the Rag Trade Wars?"
Los Angeles Times Magazine (August 1, 1993):20+.
Campaign launched by Asian Immigrant Womens Advocates
in Oakland, California, against exploitation of Chinese
immigrant garment workers by manufacturer and retailer Jessica
McClintock.
"Heroes:
Wing Lam," Mother Jones (January-February 1992).
Brief profile of activist Wing Lam and his work with the
Chinese Staff and Workers Association in New York and their
campaigns to create independent unions for Chinatown restaurant
workers.
Hibino,
June and Janice Murabayashi, "Possibilities for a Janitorial
Cooperative: Discussion paper for KIWA," M.A. thesis,
University of California, Los Angeles, 1994. Proposal and
business plan for a janitors cooperative for Korean
Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA) in Los Angeles.
Hill,
Herbert, "Chinese Immigrant Workers and the Contemporary
Labor Movement: From Exclusion to Race and Gender Discrimination,"
New Politics 7:4 (Winter 2000):149-165. Overview
of U.S. unions historical perspective on organizing
Chinese immigrant workers and the impact on work of unions
today on issues relating to racism and sexism..
Hing,
Alex, "Organizing Asian Pacific American Workers in
the AFL-CIO: New Opportunities," Amerasia Journal
18:1 (1992):141-148. Formation of Asian Pacific American
Labor Alliance (APALA) in AFL-CIO.
Hin,
Lee Siu and tom Stinnett, "NYUs Chinese Construction
Workers," Z Magazine (July/August 1998):38-39.
Students join with Chinese laborers to fight for right for
construction jobs.
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Laura, Catherine Powell, and Leti Volpp, "(Dis)assembling
Rights of Women Workers along the Global Assemblyline: Human
Rights and the Garment Industry," Harvard Civil
Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 31:2 (1996):383-414.
Exploitation of immigrant women garment workers.
Hof,
R. D., "High Techs Huddled Masses: Making a Mark
in Silicon Valley," Business Week (July 13,
1992):120. Asian immigrants in Silicon Valley, California.
Holbrook,
Sherry K., "Organizational Controls and Expressions
of Resistance: Seasonal Work in Alaskan Seafood Processing
Plants," Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 6:1
(September 1992):23-63. Study includes comments about Filipino
immigrant workers.
Hollens,
Mary, "Mutual Support with a Militant 90s Spin,"
CrossRoads (October 1994):12-15. Profile of workers
centers, including SAHKI which works with South Asian immigrants
in New York, and Chinese Staff and Workers Association in
New York Chinatown.
Hollens,
Mary, "Workers Center: Organizing in Both the Workplace
and Community," Labor Notes (September 1994):8-9.
Includes some information about Chinese Staff and Workers
Association and SAHKI for South Asian women in New York
City and Chinese Progressive Association in Boston.
Hong,
Peter Y., "Working for Less," City Times, Los
Angeles Times (May 7, 1995):14-16. In California, 129,000
hourly wage workers are paid less than minimum wage; includes
information about work of Koran Immigrant Workers Advocates
in Los Angeles.
HoSang,
Daniel, "Union Activists Launch APALA," Third
Force 2:1 (March 1994):23-24. Formation of Asian Pacific
American Labor Alliance within the AFL-CIO.
Hossfeld,
Karen J., "Their Logic Against Them: Contradictions
in Sex, Race and Class in Silicon Valley," in Ward,
Kathryn, ed., Women Workers and Global Restructuring
(Ithaca: ILR Press, 1990). Includes information about Asian
Pacific immigrant women in the electronics industry.
Hsi,
Amy, "Shinwa Restaurant Workers Update," Asian
New Yorker (January 1992):3. Immigrant worker organizing
campaign in New York City.
Imahara,
Kathryn, "English Only Racism in Disguise: An
Analysis of Dimaranan v. Pomona Valley Medical Center,"
University of West Los Angeles Law Review (Spring
1992). Civil rights issues raised by a high-profile case
involving a Filipino immigrant nurse disciplined for speaking
Tagalog on the job.
Isaac,
Jeffrey and Liza Featherstone, "Thinking about the
Antisweatshop Movement," Dissent (Fall 2001).
Explores the debate on limits and possibilities of thismovement.
Ishii,
Tomoji, "Class Conflict, the State, and Linkage: The
International Migration of Nurses from the Philippines,"
Berkeley Journal of Sociology 32 (1987):281-295.
Influx of Filipina nurses into the U.S.
Ishii,
Tomoji, "International Linkage and National Class Conflict:
The Migration of Korean Nurses to the United States,"
Amerasia Journal 14 (1988):23-50. Influx of Korean
nurses into the U.S.
I
Wor Kuen, Chinese-American Workers: Past and Present
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IWK, 1973). Articles for IWKs Getting Together
newspaper covering labor history and contemporary labor
struggles involving Chinese immigrant workers.
I
Wor Kuen, "Political Summation of the Jung Sai Strike,"
IWK Journal 2 (May 1975):49-72. Strike in San Francisco
Bay Area involving Chinese immigrant garment workers.
Jamal,
Amina, "Situating South Asian Immigrant Women in the
Canadian/Global Economy," Canadian Woman Studies
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Canada.
Kadesky,
Elizabeth, "High-Techs Dirty Little Secret,"
Nation (April 19 1993):517-520. Labor exploitation
in Silicon Valleys high-tech industry where immigrants
and contract workers from Asia represent a high percentage
of the workforce.
Kamel,
Rachel, The Global Factory: Analysis and Action for a
New Economic Era (Philadelphia: American Friends Service
Committee, 1990). Solidarity movements against sweatshops
worldwide.
Kempadoo,
Kamala, et al., eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance
and Redefinition (New York: Routledge, 1998). Strategies
for protecting the rights of women in the global sex industry.
Kampadoo,
Kamala, "Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational
Feminist Perspectives," Meridians: Feminism, Race,
Transnationalism 1:2 (Spring 2001):28-50. Impact of
globalization on the degradation of lives of women of color
worldwide.
Kang,
Alysssa, "Rags for Riches: The Exploitation of Immigrant
Women Garment Workers," Suh-Rim, the Voice of Korean
Students at UCLA (November 9, 1992):1+. UCLA Korean
American students rally in solidarity with Chinese immigrant
garment workers exploited by fashion manufacturer Jessica
McClintock.
Kang,
K. Connie, "Thai Workers Sue Top Clothing Businesses
over El Monte Plant," Los Angeles Times (October
26, 1995):B1+. With help of the Asian Pacific American Legal
Center, Thai immigrant garment workers who were once held
in slavery in El Monte slaveshop launch historic lawsuit
holding manufacturers and retailers liable for their unpaid
wages.
Kang,
Milliann, et al., A Bridge toward Unity (Los Angeles:
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, 1993). Addresses importance
of interethnic alliances in the post-1992 L.A. Uprising
period.
Kazem,
Mohammed, Rizwan Raja, Biju Mathew, Kevin Fitzpatrick, and
Dominque Esser, "Reorganizing Organizing: Immigrant
Labor in North America Interview with New York Taxi
Workers Alliance," Amerasia Journal 25:3 (1999/2000):171-181.
Interview with leaders of the 1998 New York taxi workers
strike, where more than 60 percent of the drivers are South
Asian immigrants.
Kelly,
Christine, "No Sweat: Students, Labor and Global Economy,"
New Politics 8:2 (Winter 2001):118-122. Students
organize against sweatshops and globalization.
Kendall,
Mark and Roberto Ceniceros, "Immigrant Workers Sweat
Out Life in Valley," San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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of Los Angeles County.
Kiang,
Peter and Man Chak Ng, "Through Strength and Struggle:
Bostons Asian American Student/Community/Labor Solidarity,"
Amerasia Journal 15:1 (1989):285-298. Asian American
students join Boston Chinatown community groups and Chinese
immigrant garment workers to fight against plant shutdown
in 1986.
Kim,
Dong-One and Seomgsu Kim, "The Effects of Union Membership
of Race and Immigration Status: Focusing on Asian Americans,"
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1997):378-396. Study of Asian American union members.
Kim,
Elaine H., With Silk Wings: Asian American Women at Work
(San Francisco: Asian Women United of California, 1983).
Includes profiles of 40 working women.
Kim,
P. S. and G. B. Lewis, "Asian Americans in Public Service:
Success, Diversity, and Discrimination," Public
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Issues facing Asian American employees in the public sector.
Kim,
Richard, Kane K. Nakamura, and Gisele Fong with Ron Cabarloc,
Barbara Jung, and Sung Lee, "A Preliminary Investigation:
Asian Immigrant Women Garment Workers in Los Angeles,"
Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):69-82. Examines Chinese,
Korean, and Filipino garment workers in Los Angeles.
Kolbert,
Elizabeth, "The Unfashionable Mr. Lam," Mother
Jones (September-October 2001):60-65+. Profile of work
of Wing Lam and Chinese Staff and Worker Association in
New York Chinatown.
Kono,
Stacy, "Sewing Seeds for Action," Crossroads
(November 1995):8-9. Asian immigrant workers and the garment
industry.
Koos,
David R., "South Asians in the Garment Industry: A
Preliminary Study," South Asia Bulletin 2:1
(Spring 1982). South Asian immigrant garment workers.
Korean
Immigrant Worker Advocates, Restaurant Workers Speak
Out at Townhall Meeting, November 14, 1998, Los Angeles,
California. Testimonies of Koreatown Korean and Latino immigrant
restaurant workers focusing on labor exploitation; testimonies
translated into English, Korean, and Spanish.
Kurasawa,
F., "Toppling the Pyramid: Organizing Against Patriarchy,"
Third Force 3:6 (January 1996):20-28. Service Employees
International Union (SEIU) and Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
(AIWA) in San Francisco Bay Area organize service workers.
Kwong,
Peter, "American Sweatshops 1980s Style: Chinese Women
Garment Workers," in Cohen, Cathy, et al., eds., Women
Transforming Politics (New York: New York Univesity
Press, 1997), 84-93. Chinese immigrant garment workers in
New York Chinatown.
Kwong,
Peter, "Chinas Human Traffickers," Nation
(October 17, 1994):442-425. Exploitation of Chinese migrant
laborers by smugglers.
Kwong,
Peter, "Chinese Staff and Workers Association: A Model
for Organizing in the Changing Economy?" Social
Policy 25:2 (Winter 1994):30-39. Examines the work of
Chinese Staff and Workers Association in New York Chinatown.
Kwong,
Peter. The New Chinatown (New York: New Press, 1987).
Examination of class and political polarization in New York
Chinatown; includes an analysis of restaurant workers
unionization campaigns.
Kwong,
Peter, "The Wages of Fear: Undocumented and Unwanted:
Fuzhounese Immigrants Are Changing the Face of Chinatown,"
Village Voice (April 26, 1994):25-29. Worker organizing
in New York Chinatown.
Kwong,
Peter and JoAnn Lum, "How the Other Half Lives Now,"
Nation (June 18, 1988):858-860. Class polarization
in New York Chinatown.