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Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory »
Authors: Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
ISBN-13: 9780896086388, ISBN-10: 0896086380
Format: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Book Synopsis
A poignant and inspiring portrait of the women whose labor, love, and sweat keep society and democracy alive.
Table of Contents
| Dedication | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Listening to the Women: The Real Experts | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Immigrant Women Workers | 19 |
| Ch. 2 | La Mujer Luchando, El Mundo Transformando! Mexican Immigrant Women Workers | 63 |
| Ch. 3 | "Each Day I Go Home with A New Wound in My Heart": Korean Immigrant Women Workers | 123 |
| Ch. 4 | Extended Families | 179 |
| Ch. 5 | Movement Roots | 195 |
| Ch. 6 | "Just-in-Time" Guerrilla Warriors | 215 |
| Conclusion: Returning to the Source | 247 | |
| Bibliography | 257 | |
| Index | 295 | |
| About the Author | 307 |
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