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

By Glenn Omatsu

Section H to K:

Ha, Daisy, "An Analysis and Critique of KIWA’s 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 195 (1992). Protecting rights of immigrant garment workers.

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 Pakistan’s "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 Women’s Group Press a New Wrinkle into the Rag Trade Wars?" Los Angeles Times Magazine (August 1, 1993):20+. Campaign launched by Asian Immigrant Women’s 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. union’s 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, "NYU’s Chinese Construction Workers," Z Magazine (July/August 1998):38-39. Students join with Chinese laborers to fight for right for construction jobs.

Ho, 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 Tech’s 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 – An Anthology of Getting Together (San Francisco: IWK, 1973). Articles for IWK’s 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 18:1 (1998):26-33. South Asian immigrant women workers in Canada.

Kadesky, Elizabeth, "High-Tech’s Dirty Little Secret," Nation (April 19 1993):517-520. Labor exploitation in Silicon Valley’s 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 (October 25, 1993):1+. Garment workers in San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County.

Kiang, Peter and Man Chak Ng, "Through Strength and Struggle: Boston’s 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," Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences 33 (Spring 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 Administration Research 54 (May/June 1994):285-290. 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, "China’s 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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