Lai, Ho Nhu, "Organizing Asian Immigrant Workers," Labor Research Review 20 (1993). Union organizing campaigns among Vietnamese immigrants and refugees.

Lam, Leo L., "Designer Duty: Extending Liability to Manufacturers for Violations of Labor Standards in Garment Industry Sweatshops," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 141:2 (December 1992):623-667. Exploitation of immigrant garment workers and the efforts to promote manufacturer liability for labor violations in sweatshops.

Laurentz, Robert, "Racial/Ethnic Conflict in the New York City Garment Industry, 1933-1980," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979. Includes information about Chinese immigrant workers.

Lee, Don, "Courting Workers They Once Shunned," Los Angeles Times (May 6, 1995):A1+. After a century of exclusionist policies, unions in the U.S. are trying to organize Asian American workers.

Lee, Donna R., "Mail Fantasy: Global Sexual Exploitation in the Mail-Order Bride Industry and Proposed Legal Solutions," Asian Law Journal 5:1 (May 1998):139-179. Focuses on the exploitation of women of the Philippines in the mail-order bride business.

Lee, Hoon, "Displaced and Demanding Justice," Third Force (September/October 1994):10-14. Following the 1992 L.A. Uprising, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates in Los Angeles helps immigrant workers from destroyed Korean businesses to obtain relief from a community fund.

Lee, Jennifer, "Jing Fong: Unfair Labor Practices in Chinatown," Asian American Policy Review 7 (Spring 1997):145-162. Exploitation of immigrants in New York Chinatown restaurants.

Lee, John, "Real Good Food at a Price," Gidra 1:1 (Spring 1999):16-20. Immigrant restaurant worker organizing in Los Angeles Koreatown by Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates.

Lee, P., "Asian Workers in U.S.: A Challenge to Labor," Labor Notes (July 1993):11. Formation of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in AFL-CIO.

Lee, Pam Tau, "Asian Workers in the U.S. – A Challenge for Labor," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):95-102. Formation of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) in AFL-CIO.

Lee, Pam Tau, "Health and Safety for the Unorganized," Labor Research Review 20 (1993). Rights of workers, especially new immigrants.

Lee, Patricia, "Asian Immigrant Women and HERE Local 2," Labor Research Review 11 (1988):29-38. Focus on San Francisco Bay Area Hotel and Restaurant Workers Local 2.

Levine, David, "New York Workers Centers: Creative Response to Growth of Modern Day Sweatshops," Independent Politics (July/August 1995):6-7. Describes the work of workers centers, including Chinese Staff and Worker Association.

Li, David K., "Asian-American Labor Caucus Organized; Some Activists Fear Domination by AFL-CIO Leadership," Labor Notes (July 1992):16. Formation of APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance) in AFL-CIO.

Li, Peggy, Buck Wong, and Fong Kwan, Garment Industry in Los Angeles Chinatown, 1973-74, Working Papers in Asian American Studies, No. 5 (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1974). Investigation of working conditions in Los Angeles Chinatown factories.

Libman, Gary, "Tales from the Assembly Line," Los Angeles Times (September 2, 1991):E1+. Profile of Japanese American union leader Mark Masaoka in the General Motors plant in Van Nuys, California.

Liebhold, Peter and Harry R. Rubenstein, eds., Between a Rock and Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, 1999). Includes information about the enslavement of Thai immigrant women in the El Monte sweatshop in the early 1990s and interviews with two of the women.

Liem, Ramsay and Jinsoo Kim, "Pico Worker Struggle, Korean Americans, and the Lessons of Solidarity," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):49-68. Korean workers’ struggle gains solidarity in America from Korean Americans.

Lipske, Mike, "A New Gold Rush Packs the Woods in Central Oregon," Smithsonian (January 1994):34-45. Mushroom gathering of Cambodian refugees.

Liu, Lisa (as told to David Bacon), "The Story of a Garment Worker," Dollars and Sense (September/October 2000). Perspectives of an immigrant garment worker.

Liu, Meizhu, "Chinese Workers Organize in New York City," Forward Motion 11:3 (July 1992):36-39. Chinese immigrant workers organize independent restaurant workers’ union in Chnatown.

Loo, Chalsa and Paul Ong, "Slaying Demons with a Sewing Needle: Feminist Issues for Chinatown’s Women," Berkeley Journal of Sociology 27 (1982):77-88. San Francisco Bay Area Chinese immigrant garment workers.

Lopez-Garza, Marta and David R. Diaz, eds., Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Southern California (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Impact of Asian and Latino immigration on reshaping Southern California.

Lorch, D., "Immigrants from China Pay Dearly to Be Slaves," New York Times (January 3, 1991):B1+. Undocumented Chinese immigrants in New York City become modern-day "indentured servants."

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, The Other Los Angeles: The Working Poor in the City of the 21^st Century (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, August 2000). Profile of the working poor in Los Angeles.

Louie, Miriam Yoon Ching, "Asian and Latina Women Take on the Garment Giants," CrossRoads (March 1993):18-21. Immigrant garment workers struggles for justice.

Louie, Miriam Yoon Ching, "Breaking the Cycle: Women Workers Confront Corporate Greed Globally," in Shah, Sonia, ed., Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (Boston: South End Press, 1997). Immigrant garment workers struggle for justice.

Louie, Miriam Yoon Ching, "Immigrant Asian Women in Bay Area Garment Sweatshops: ‘After Sewing, Laundry, Cleaning and Cooking, I Have No Breath Left to Sing,’" Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):1-27. Describes leadership development program of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in San Francisco Bay Area for immigrant garment workers to enable them to launch organizing campaigns for justice.

Louie, Miriam Yoon Ching, "Organizing Chinatown’s Kitchen Men and Sewing Women," Minority Trendsletter 4:3 (Summer 1991):8-10. Immigrants organize for justice.

Louie, Miriam Yoon Ching, "Organizing Immigrant Women Workers," Equal Means (Fall 1993):21-23. Focus on the work of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Louie, Miriam Yoon Ching, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory (Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2001). Includes chapters on Chinese, Korean, and Thai immigrant workers and their campaigns for justice through the formation of workers centers.

Lowe, Lydia, "Chinese Immigrant Workers and Community-based Organizing in Boston: Paving the Way," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):39-48. Labor-community alliance in Boston Chinatown to protect the rights of immigrant garment workers.

"The Lucrative Business That Is Labor Export," Migrant Focus Magazine, Hong Kong 1:2 (October-December 2000). Special theme issue on exploitation world-wide of migrant workers from Asia.

Macklin, Audrey, "Foreign Domestic Workers: Surrogate Housewife or Mail Order Servant?" McGill Law Journal 37:3 (1992):681-760. Exploitation of immigrant domestic workers.

Maeshiro, Sandy, "It Ain’t All Smiles and Sukiyaki," in Gee, Emma, et al., eds., Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976), 372-375. Working conditions of waitresses in Japanese restaurants in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Mar, Don, "Another Look at the Enclave Economy Thesis: Chinese Immigrants in the Ethnic Labor Market," Amerasia Journal 17:3 (1991):5-21. Impact of the enclave economy on immigrant laborers.

Mar, Warren, "From Pool Halls to Building Workers’ Organizations: Lessons for Today’s Activists," in Louie, Steve and Glenn Omatsu, eds., Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2001), 32-47. Personal perspective by an Asian American Movement activist in the San Francisco Bay Area who moved from student and community organizing into labor organizing in the 1970s.

Masaoka, Mark, "Nikkei in U.S. Autoland," Rafu Magazine (December 19, 1987):4-11. Japanese American activist describes his involvement in the GM plant in Van Nuys, California.

Mathur, Chandana and Anannya Bhattacharjee, "’There Is No End to Hoping’: Working Women Speak Out," Samar, South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection 11 (Spring/Summer 1999):13-18. Dialogue involving South Asian immigrant women workers.

McGregor-Alegado, Davianna, "Hawaiians: Organizing in the 1970s," Amerasia Journal 7:2 (1980):29-55. Includes information about Hawaiian participation in the labor movement.

Melwani, Lavina, "Citizens of the Shadow World,"Little India (February 1999). Undocumented immigrant workers from India in the U.S.

Milkman, Ruth, ed., Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California (Ithaca: ILR Press and Cornell University Press, 2000. Essays on immigrant worker organizing and working conditions in California.

Min, Pyong Gap, "The Burden of Labor on Korean American Wives In and Outside the Family," in Song, Young I. and Ailee Moon, eds., Korean American Women: From Tradition to Modern Feminism (Westport: Praeger, 1998).

Moberg, Mark and J. Stephen Thomas, "Class Segmentation and Divided Labor: Asian Workers in the Gulf of Mexico Seafood Industry," Ethnology 32:1 (Winter 1993):87-99. Southeast Asian refugees in Alabama fishing community.

Mogado, Linelle, "From the Bottom Up: The New Asian Pacific Islander Labor Activism," ColorLines 2:2 (Summer 1999):28-30. Focuses on the work of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance in the AFL-CIO.

Mitchell, Danny, "Community-based Organizing Campaigns: A Better Way to Organize," Labor Notes (August 1994):11+. Labor-community strategic partnerships.

Morita, Barbara and Chris Braga, "Agbayani Village," in Letters in Exile: An Introductory Reader on the History of Pilipinos in America (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976). Describes the construction of the retirement complex for farmworkers named after a Filipino immigrant laborer killed during an organizing campaign.

Moy, Debbie, "Unity through Sisterhood: Childcare Concerns Link Postal Workers across the Racial Divide," Labor Research Review 20 (1993). Postal workers’ union responds to needs of women members.

Muncada, Relipe Laguitan, "The Labor Migration of Philippine Nurses to the United States," Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1995. Describes the influx of Filipina nurses into the U.S.

Nakagawa, Martha, "One Garment Worker Shares Her Experience," Rafu Shimpo (October 26, 1995). Story of a Japanese immigrant garment worker.

National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, "Ain’t I a Woman?!: A Campaign of the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops," brochure, New York, 1999. Community-based campaign against sweatshops.

Nayyar, D., "International Labor Movements, Trade Flows and Migration Transitions: A Theoretical Perspective," Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 3:1 (1994):31-48. Analyzes labor migration in the context of international trade and economic development.

Needleman, Ruth, "Organizing Low-Wage Workers: Building a Relationship for the Long Haul between Unions and Community Based Organizations," Working USA 1:1 (May 1997):45-59. Labor-community partnerships to help low-wage workers.

Ng, Franklin, ed., Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status (New York: Garland, 1998). Employment issues in the Asian American community.

Ng, Man Chak, "The Chinese Progressive Association’s Community Organizing Method: Case Study of the Dislocated P & L Garment Workers’ Struggle in Boston," B.S. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. Chinatown community organization mobilizes community support for Chinese immigrant women displaced from their jobs due to a garment plant shutdown.

Ng, Roxanne, "Homeworking: Dream Realized or Freedom Constraint? The Globalized Reality of Immigrant Women Garment Workers," Canadian Woman Studies 19:3 (Fall 1999):110-114. Includes information on Chinese immigrant garment workers in Canada.

Nguyen, Minh, "Sweatshops Are a Big Part of Immigrant Communities," Asian American, the Asian Pacific Newsmagazine of UC Riverside (Spring 1992):8+. Impact of sweatshops on ethnic communities.

Nguyen, Tram, "Showdown in K-town," ColorLines (Spring 2001):24-29. Koreatown immigrant restaurant workers organize against exploitation.

Nissen, Bruce and Seth Rosen, "Community-based Organizing: Transforming Union Organizing Programs from the Bottom Up," in Nissen, Bruce, ed., Which Direction for Organized Labor? (Detroit: Michigan State University Press, 1999), 59-74. Partnerships involving labor unions and community organizations as a strategic focus for worker organizing.

Nishijima, Dan, "The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance," CrossRoads (September 1992):22. Formation of APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance) in AFL-CIO.