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Sweatshop Warriors
In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights. In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poi...
Women and Chinese Patriarchy
This collection reveals many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the avenues of escape open to some of them. The authors are anthropologists, historians and sociologists, but the book is enriched also by contributions from the participants - a social worker, a mui tsai, and a colonial civil servant. The chapters are based on original documentary or oral research and personal experience, and, throughout the book, the voices of the women, their owners and their missionary rescuers can be clearly heard.
Not Contagious--Only Cancer
NOVEL SYNOPSIS: Averaging $12/hour some 1.4 million nursing aides care for fragile patients--yet who cares when caretakers fall ill? One nursing aide uses what she's learned helping patients cross Life's final bumps for her own exit. When Kyong Ah Choi spits of a blood clot that looks like a chunk of Dead Husband's liver, terror mounts Left Lung. Her White Knight cigarettes smother panic and pipe in dreams of a former patient, a gardener who Kevorkianed himself with pruning arms. Soon Cancer Goddess propels the aide to Flatland County Hospital, where Oakland's shot, maimed and uninsured lean away from her Asian TB-like hacking. She joins the beggar mob petitioning MediCal. A guilt-ridden single mom, she's loathe to admit she's ill, much less ask for help from her kids--Yumi the hater, Mickey the boozer and Sally the lesbian sex toys store clerk. When a North-Korean-missile-sized biopsy needle disgorges its payload--killer cells--Kyong Ah ups her tactics. Liquor and tobacco offerings to Cancer Goddess. Chants and needles to Mercy Goddess. But how can Kyong Ah's wheezy lungs fight off a plague that mimics the very ingenuity and drive of its immigrant host?
Global Feminisms Since 1945
This is an innovative introduction to the issues of contemporary feminism, with a truly global perspective. It analyses the roots, development, and, in some cases, the conclusions of feminisms and how they have interacted.
Organizing Immigrants
Recruiting the growing numbers of immigrants into union ranks is imperative for the besieged U.S. labor movement. Nowhere is this task more pressing than in California, where immigrants make up a quarter of the population and hold many of the manual jobs that were once key strongholds of organized labor. The first book to offer in-depth coverage of this timely topic, Organizing Immigrants analyzes the recent history of and prospects for union organizing among foreign-born workers in the nation's most populous state. Are foreign-born workers more or less receptive to unionization than their native-born counterparts? Are undocumented immigrants as likely as legal residents and naturalized citi...
BRIDGE
A huge, eminently practical workbook, and organizing tool. A popular education resource of exercise and tools for immigrant and refugee community organizations and other allies of immigrants and refugees. It features 8 workshop modules that include activities, discussion questions, fact sheets, and other resources to help build dialogue, engagement, and shared action within and between communities. Topics covered in BRIDGE include discussions of the history of immigration, human rights, globalization and workers' rights, immigrant women's leadership, LGBT rights, and building common ground between communities. Truly wonderful. "In all of my years since the 1960s as an activist for peace and ...
All the Women in My Family Sing
"An anthology [of prose and poetry] documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century ... whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth"--Amazon.com.
Revolution in the Air
The first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968 The sixties were a time when radical movements learned to embrace twentieth-century Marxism. Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of this turning point, and examines what the resistance of today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che. It tells the story of the “new communist movement” which was the most racially integrated and fast-growing movement on the Left. Thousands of young activists, radicalized by the Vietnam War and Black Liberation, and spurred on by the Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian-American movements, embraced a Third World oriented version of Marxism. These admirers of Mao, Che and...
Women's Education in the Global Economy
Fun and fabulous popular education workbook enables users to understand the impact of the global economy on women. Includes activities on eight themes, glossary, resource lists. Perfect for community-based organizations, study groups, or classrooms.
Global Sex Workers
Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group.
