Omatsu, Glenn and Edna Bonacich, eds., "Asian Pacific American Workers: Contemporary Issues in the Labor Movement," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992). Special theme issue on historical and contemporary issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander workers.

Omatsu, Glenn, "Asian Pacific American Workers and the Expansion of Democracy," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):v-xix. Labor struggles of Asian American and Pacific Islander workers go beyond workplace issues and help to expand democracy and rights in the community.

Omatsu, Glenn, "Asian Pacific Population Characteristics and the Implications for the Labor Movement," in Organizing the Asian Pacific Worker (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, Institute of Industrial Relations, 1988). Demographic description of Asian and Pacific Islander immigrant workers.

Omatsu, Glenn, "Filling the Hole in the Soul: the New Otani Hotel Campaign and Ethnic Studies," RaceFile (January-March 1998):33-37. Through an Asian American Studies class, UCLA students provide solidarity for Latino immigrant workers involved in a unionization campaign at a hotel in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.

Omatsu, Glenn, "How Prejudice Against Asian Workers Is Hurting Workers in the U.S., Labor Notes (May 1992):8-9+. Unions’ insensitivity to needs of Asian immigrant workers is hindering the development of a multiracial labor movement.

Omatsu, Glenn, "Labor Organizing in Los Angeles: Confronting the Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity," in Yu, Eui-Young and Edward Chang, eds., Multiethnic Coalition Building in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Institute for Asian American and Pacific American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 1995). Immigrant labor struggles in Los Angeles are revitalizing the labor movement.

Omatsu, Glenn, "Vietnamese Workers Struggle for Justice and Equality," Gidra (20^th anniversary issue) (1991). Vietnamese union members confront insensitivity of union bureaucracy.

Ong, Paul M., ed., Beyond Asian American Poverty: Community Economic Development, Policies and Strategies (Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1993). Provides an overview of issues facing "invisible" Asian immigrants in Los Angeles – the working poor, the unemployed and those dependent on welfare.

Ong, Paul M., "Immigrant Wives’ Labor Force Participation," Industrial Relations 26 (Fall 1987):296-303. Analysis of immigrant women in the labor force.

Ong, Paul M., Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, eds., The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). Includes essays on Asian immigrant labor.

Ong, Paul M. and Tania Azores, "The Migration and Incorporation of Filipino Nurses," in Ong, Paul M., Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, eds., The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). Analysis of the influx into the U.S. of nurses from the Philippines.

Ong, Paul M. and Suzanne J. Hee, "Labor Policy: Work Issues Facing Asian Pacific Americans," in The State of Asian Pacific America: Policy Issues to the Year 2020 (Los Angeles: LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1993), 141-152. Overview of policy issues affecting Asian American and Pacific Islander workers.

Ong, Paul M., Lucie Cheng, and Leslie Evans, "The Migration of Highly Educated Asians," International Educator (Fall 1991):26-29. Examines the causes of migration of professionals from Asia to the U.S. and western nations.

Organizing Institute, AFL-CIO, Faculty Work: Inspiring Activism and Supporting Working Families (Washington, D.C.: Organizing Institute, AFL-CIO, 1998). Presents ways that university faculty are promoting labor activism among students; includes perspectives from Kent Wong and Glenn Omatsu.

"Organizing the Poor Immigrant Communities: Starting from Scratch in the Bronx," Forward Motion 15:2 (Winter 1997):40-42. Focuses on the work of Eric Tang of Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence.

O’Rourke, Dara, "Sweatshops 101: Lessons in Monitoring Apparel Production around the World," Dollars and Sense (September/October 2001):14-17+. Describes the monitoring work of the Independent University Initiative (IUI) funded by Harvard University, the University of Notre Dame, Ohio State University, the University of California, and the University of Michigan.

Park, Edward, "Asian Immigrants and the High Technology Industry in Silicon Valley," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1992. Analyzes development of Silicon Valley’s high-tech economy in terms of influx of Asian immigrants.

Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar, "The Global Servants: (Im)Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers in Rome and Los Angeles," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Impact of globalization on transforming Filipinas into migrant domestic workers worldwide.

Petras, Elizabeth McLean, "The Shirt on Your Back: Immigrant Workers and the Reorganization of the Garment Industry," Social Justice 19:1 (Spring 1992):76-114. Includes an analysis of the Philadelphia garment industry and some information on the role of Vietnamese workers.

Pfeffer, Max J., "Class-Based Social Mobility on the Urban/Rural Fringe: Cambodian Farmworkers in Philadelphia," in Madsen, Terry, et al., eds., Labour and Locality: Uneven Development and the Rural Labor Process (London: David Fulton publishers, 1992). Description of Cambodian laborers in Philadelphia.

Prashad, Vijay, "The Day New York Stood Still," ColorLines 1:2 (Fall 1998):35-37. Taxi cab drivers – more than 60 percent of whom are South Asian immigrants – go on strike in New York City.

Prashad, Vijay, "The Smiling Revolutionary," Little India (March 2002). Profile of labor organizer Raj Jayadev and his work as a labor organizer in California’s high-tech Silicon Valley.

Preston, Valierie and Guida Man, "Employment Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Women: An Exploration of Diversity," Canadian Woman Studies 19:3 (Fall 1999:115-122. Chinese immigrant women in Canada.

Puette, William J., ed., Paa Hui Unions: The Hawaii State AFL-CIO, 1966-1991 (Honolulu: Hawai‘i State AFL-CIO, 1991). Recent history of AFL-CIO in Hawai‘i.

Racheff, Peter, "Seeds of a Labor Resurgency," Nation (February 21, 1994):226-229. Includes some comments about Chinese Staff and Workers Association in New York City.

Rana, S., "Fulfilling Technology’s Promise: Enforcing the Rights of Women Caught in the Global High-Tech Underclass," Berkeley Women’s Law Journal (2000):272-311. Focus on Asian immigrant women.

Reyes, Teófilo, "Filipino Workers Forced to Choose Between Families and Jobs: Federalized Airport Screeners Denied Right to Union," Labor Notes (February 2002):1+. Following the 9-11 terrorist attack, the U.S. government enacted a new law for airport screeners and requiring U.S. citizenship. In airports in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose 75 percent of the screeners are Filipinos, and the vast majority are legal U.S. residents but not citizens. The union representing these workers and their community supporters have filed a lawsuit on their behalf to try to protect their jobs.

Robertson, Michael, "Empowering the Women of the Sweatshops," San Francisco Chronicle (April 24, 1990):B3+. Information about Asian Immigrant Women Advocates in Oakland and its work with garment workers in Oakland Chinatown.

Rodriguez, Cecilia, "Community Organizing: What It Means for Women of Color," Working Paper, La Mujer Obrera, El Paso, Texas, 1990. Strategies for community organizing.

Roediger, David, ed., "The End of Whiteness: Reflections on a Demographic Landmark," New Labor Forum 8 (Spring/Summer 2001):49-62. Essays by Susan Porter Benson, Fernando Gapasin, Ajamu Dillahunt, and Katie Quan responding to demographic shifts marking the "first time in U.S. history" that "organized labor is no longer white and male."

Romero, Mary. Maid in the U.S.A. (New York: Routledge, 1992). Immigrant domestic workers in the U.S.

Rosca, Ninotchka, "White Nightmares: Testimonies from Filipina Nurses," OO (Our Own) (July-August 1988):10-13. Labor abuses facing migrant nurses from the Philippines\.

Ross, Andrew, ed., No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers (London: Verso, 1997). Collection of essays on the impact of globalization on the rights of workers in the garment industry.

Ruckelshaus, Cathy and Jim Williams, "Down by Law: New Ideas for Defeating Sweatshops," New Labor Forum 4 (Spring/Summer 1999):57-65. New legal strategies for responding to sweatshop abuses.

Sage, Jesse, "Guarding America’s First Right: Freedom from Bondage," Civil Rights Journal (Fall 2000):4-11+. Argues that the immigrants smuggled into the U.S. and forced to work are part of a "new slavery" that needs to be addressed by civil rights groups.

Samar Collective, "One Big, Happy Family? Class Issues within South Asian American Homes," Samar, South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection 2 (Winter 1994):10-15. Exploitation of South Asian immigrant domestic workers by South Asian immigrant families.

Santa Maria, Nathaniel, "Securing Their Future: Filipina Room Cleaners in San Francisco’s Hotel Industry," M.A. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. Based on interviews with Filipina immigrants.

Sassen, Saskia, The Making of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flow (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988). Impact of the corporate global economy on labor migration.

Scheer, Christopher, "L.A.’s Real Immigration Woe: ‘Illegals’ Made Slaves to Fashion," Nation (September 11, 1995):237-238. Exploitation of immigrant workers in garment industry.

Scheer, Christopher, "Thailand to L.A.: A Life of Debasement," Los Angeles Times (August 14, 1995):B5. Thai garment workers found in slaveshop in El Monte, California.

Schoenberger, Karl, "Living Off Expatriate Labor," Los Angeles Times (August 1, 1994):A1+. Due to harsh economic conditions in Philippines, Filipinos are scattered throughout the world searching for work; more than 380,000 lives in Southern California; Filipinos in U.S. send back one billion dollars each year in remittances to Philippines.

Scott, Allen J., "Low-Wage Workers in a High Technology Manufacturing Complex: The Southern California Electronics Assembly Industry," Urban Studies 29 (December 1992);1231-1246. Includes information about Asian immigrants in electronics assembly industry.

Scott, Allen J., Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). Includes information about Asian immigrants in electronics assembly industry.

Sen, Rinku, We Are the Ones We Are Waiting For: Women of Color Organizing for Transformation (Durham: U.S. Urban-Rural Mission of the World Council of Churches, 1995). Organizing strategies by women of color.

Shankar, S., "Ambassadors of Goodwill: An Interview with Saleem Osman of Lease Drivers’ Coalition," Samar, South Asian Magazine for Action & Reflection 3 (Summer 1994):44-47. South Asian immigrant cabdrivers in New York City.

Shimatsu, Yoichi and Patricia Lee, "Dust and Dishes: Organizing Workers," in Asian Women United, ed., Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 386-394. Asian immigrant women in San Francisco Bay Area hotels and restaurants.

Shu, R. and A. Satele, The Samoan Community in Southern California: Conditions and Needs, Occasional paper No. 2 (Chicago: Asian American Mental health Research Center, 1977). Overview of Samoan community.

Silverstein, Stuart, "Adventures in the Rag Trade," Los Angeles Times (July 21, 1991):D1+. Profile of the growing garment industry in Los Angeles County, which ranks as the second largest manufacturing industry in the county.

Silverstein, Stuart, "Survey of Garment Industry Finds Rampant Labor Abuse," Los Angeles Times (October 28, 1994):A1+. Study by California Labor Department.

Skeldon, Ronald, "Trafficking: A Perspective from Asia," International Migration 38:3 (2000):7-30. Exploitation of Asian migrant women through sex slavery.

Slaughter, Jane, "Blaming Japan Will Get Us Nowhere," Labor Notes (June 1992):J6-7. Includes analysis of impact of anti-Japan sentiments among U.S. workers on Asian Americans; part of an eight-page special report on Japanese workers and their relationship to U.S. workers.

Starr, Paul D., "Troubled Waters: Vietnamese Fisherfolk on America’s Gulf Coast," International Migration Review 15:2 (Spring-summer 1981). Conflicts between Vietnamese refugees and white fishermen.

Soyer, Daniel, "Garment Sweatshops, Then and Now," New Labor Forum 4 (Spring/Summer 1999):35-46. Includes information on the militancy of Chinese immigrant women garment workers in New York City in 1982.

Street, Paul, "Student Activism: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement," Z Magazine (May 2000):16-20. Students organize against sweatshops and globalization.

Su, Julie, "El Monte Thai Garment Workers: Slave Sweatshops," in Ross, Andrew, ed., No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers (London: Verso, 1997). Attorney and advocate tells the story of the Thai immigrants enslaved in the El Monte, California, slaveshop in the early 1990s.

Su, Julie, "Heed the Call of the Dreamer," CrossCurrents, Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (Fall/Winter 1996):8-9. Attorney for former Thai immigrant garment workers describes their impact on her life.

Su, Julie and Chanchanit Martorell, "Exploitation and Abuse in the Garment Industry: The Case of Thai Slave-Labor Compound in El Monte," in 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), 21-45. Describes how community groups joined with Thai immigrant women from the El Monte slaveshop to fight for justice.

Sweatshop Watch, "Sweatshop Watch Launches Accountability Campaign," Sweatshop Watch 1:2 (Winter 1996):1-2. Efforts to promote manufacturer and retailer accountability in the garment industry.

Sweatshop Watch, "Sweatshop Labor – Made in U.S.A.," Sweatshop Watch 4:1 (Spring 1998):1-2. Exploitation of immigrant workers in the garment industry.

Sweatshop Watch, "The Globalization of Sweatshops," Sweatshop Watch 6:2 (Summer 2000):1-3. Impact of the corporate global economy on worker rights.

Sweatshop Watch and Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, "Thai & Latino Garment Workers Demand Justice: The Retailer Accountability Campaign," Los Angeles, 1996. Formation of a community-based coalition to fight for the rights of Thai and Latino immigrant garment workers by emphasizing retailer accountability for sweatshop abuses.

Takayama, Robynn, "The Fabric of Resistance: Asian American Garment Workers and Activism," Rice Paper (UC Irvine) (Autumn 1993):10-12. Provides an historical overview of issues facing Asian immigrant women in the garment industry and the importance of student support for the campaign against the Jessica McClintock corporation.

Teng, Shiree, "Women, Community, and Equality: Three Garment Workers Speak Out," East Wind (Spring/Summer 1983). Chinese immigrant garment workers in Boston.

Thornburg, Gina, "Koreatown’s Workers Find a Voice," Progressive (July 1998):12. Immigrant restaurant worker organizer in Los Angeles Koreatown.

Toji, Dean S. and James H. Johnson, "Asian and Pacific Islander Poverty: The Working Poor and the Jobless Poor," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):83-91. Overview of poverty among Asian Americans and Pacific Islander in Los Angeles with a focus on the working poor.

Torres, Vicki, "Bold Fashion Statement: Amid Aerospace Decline, L.A. Garment Industry Emerges as a Regional Economic Force," Los Angeles Times (August 5, 1995):D1+. Growth of the garment industry in Southern California.

Torres, Vicki, "Walking the Line on Abuse: Garment Strikers Say U.S. Labor Laws Don’t Work," Los Angeles Times (July 25, 1995):D1+. Lack of enforcement of U.S. labor standards in garment sweatshops in Los Angeles.

Tsang, Daniel C., "A Look Back: David vs. Goliath at UC Irvine," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):107-117. UC Irvine librarian fights for rights in the workplace.

Tsen, Wen-ti, "The Garment Worker’s Story," in The Asian American Comic Book (Boston: Asian American Resource Workshop, 1991). How a "seemingly docile Chinese woman worker discovers her strength and the community’s support when the factory where she worked closes in Chinatown."

Tung, Charlene, "The Social Reproductive Labor of Filipina Transmigrant Workers in Southern California: Caring for Those Who Provide Elderly Care," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 1999. Immigrant Filipina domestic workers.

Tyner, J. A., "The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States," American Behavioral Scientist 42:4 (January 1999):671-689. Impact of globalization on labor migration from the Philippines.

UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, Organizing Asian Pacific Workers in Southern California (Los Angeles: UCLA Institute for Industrial Relations, 1988). With essays by June McMahon, Glenn Omatsu, Don T. Nakanishi, Stewart Kwoh, Linda Wong, mark Masaoka, and Miguel Machuca. Overview of issues facing Asian Pacific American workers in Southern California.

Udesky, Laurie, "Sweatshops Behind the Labels," Nation (May 16, 1994). San Francisco Bay Area garment industry.

Varley, Pamela, ed., The Sweatshop Quandary: Corporate Responsibility on the Global Frontier (Washington, D.C.: Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1998). Corporations grapple with question of accountability in sweatshops they contract with.

Venkatesh, Vandana, "Sweatshops: Life in the Underground Garment Industry," Together (UCLA) (December 1990):12-13+. Includes a profile of garment worker Yuet-Woon of San Francisco, mother of a UCLA student.

Venugopal, Arun, "Invisible No More," Little India (July 2001). South Asian immigrant domestic workers.

Villapando, Venny, "The Business of Selling Mail-Order Brides," in Asian Women United, ed., ., Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 318-327. Exploitation of Filipina women in the "mail-order bride" business.

Waldinger, Roger D., Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York’s Garment Trades (New York: New York University Press, 1986). Focus on garment contractors.

Warrick, Pamela, "The Freedom Fighter: Lawyer Julie Su Finds Inspiration in the Thai Garment Workers She’s Assisting," Los Angeles Times (September 4, 1995):E1+. Profile of attorney Julie Su of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles and her work defending Thai immigrant garment workers found in El Monte slaveshop.

Wei Min She Labor Committee, Chinese Working People in America (San Francisco: Wei Min She, 1974). Overview of both historical and contemporary labor struggles of Chinese immigrants in the U.S.

Wells, Miriam J., "Immigration and Unionization in the San Francisco Hotel Industry," in Milkman, Ruth, ed., Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California (Ithaca: ILR Press and Cornell University Press, 2000. Includes information about the role of Asian immigrant workers and union organizing.

Wheat, Andrew, "Workers Rights Unravelled," Multinational Monitor 15:3 (March 1994):7-8. Asian immigrant women garment workers.

White, George, "Garment ‘Slaves’ Tell of Hardship," Los Angeles Times (August 4, 1995):D1+. Thai immigrants describe seventeen-hour workdays in El Monte slaveshop.

Wijers, Marjan and Lin Lap-Chew, Trafficking in Women, Forced Labor and Slavery-Like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labor and Prostitution (Amsterdam: Foundation Against Trafficking in Women, 1997). Impact of globalization on growth of trafficking of women.

Wong, Diane Yen-Mei and Dennis Hayashi, "Behind Unmarked Doors: Developments in the Garment Industry," in Asian Women United, ed., Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 159-171. Efforts of community activists to promote reforms in labor legislation for the garment industry.

Wong, Kent, "Building an Asian Pacific Labor Movement," in Ho, Fred, ed., Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America (San Francisco: AK Press, 2000). Formation of APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance) in the AFL-CIO to promote organizing of Asian Pacific American workers.

Wong, Kent, "Building Unions in Asian Pacific Communities," Amerasia Journal 18:1 (1992):149-154. Asian Pacific American labor activists form APALA (Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance) in the AFL-CIO to promote organizing of Asian Pacific American workers.

Wong, Kent, Julie Monroe, and Kathleen Yasuda, eds., Voices for Justice: Asian Pacific American Organizers and the New Labor Movement (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, 2001). Contains personal perspectives by the following Asian American union staff members: Luisa Blue, Francisco Chang, May Chen, Amado David, Ligaya Domingo, Bob Hasegawa, Leonard Hoshijo, Susan Michi Minato, Quynh Nguyen, and Raahi Reddy.

Wong, Marshall, "From Los Angeles Chinatown to San Diego Shipyards, NASSCO Defendant Clyde Loo," Asian American Journey (September 1981). Political trial involving a union activist shipbuilder in early 1980s.

Wong, Morrison, "Chinese Sweatshops in the U.S.: A Look at the Garment Industry," in Simpson, Ida Harper and Richard L. Simpson, eds., Research in the Sociology of Work (Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1983). Exploitation of immigrant workers in sweatshops run by Chinese immigrant contractors.

"Workers Stage Protest Rally against Convalescent Home," California Examiner (March 8, 1995):1+. Latino and Filipino immigrant workers protest discrimination at Hillhaven Convalescent Hospital in Orange County, especially regarding its "English-only" policy on the job.

Wu, Diana Ting Liu, Asian Pacific Americans in the Workplace (Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1997). Overview of employment issues facing Asian Pacific Americans.

Yanagida, R. Takashi, "The AAFEE Story: Asian Americans for Equal Employment," in Gee, Emma, et al., eds., Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976), 393-397. Story of the fight by Chinese immigrant laborers for construction jobs in New York Chinatown in the mid-1970s.

Yanz, Lynda and Bob Jeffcott, "Bringing Codes Down to Earth," International Union Rights 8:3 (2001). Problems with voluntary corporate labor codes to respond to sweatshop abuses.

Yokota, Ryan, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Interethnic Solidarity between Asian Pacific Islanders and Latina/os," Rafu Shimpo (November 22, 1994). Interethnic support for Latino immigrant workers attempting to unionize the New Otani Hotel in Los Angeles Little Tokyo.

Yoo, Young-Im, "Dangers in the Workplace: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates," Race, Poverty & the Environment 3:1 (Spring 1992):11-12. Health and safety issues facing Asian immigrant women in the workplace.

Yuen, Shirley Mark and Teresa Feng, "Coping with Unemployment: The Struggle of the PSC Garment Workers," Asian American Resource Workshop Newsletter (June 1986). Community groups respond to Chinese immigrant women displaced from closure of a garment factory in Boston Chinatown.

Zarembka, Joy Mutanu, "Maid to Order," ColorLines (Fall 2001):26-28. Imported domestic workers as a form of modern-day slavery.

Zurawsky, Christopher, "Battling the Bosses," City Limits (New York) (August 1993):6-8. Profile of the Chinese Staff and Workers Association in New York City.