Comments from Inside Front Flap

Miriam Ching Louie's Sweatshop Warriors introduces us to women who refuse to accept their assigned place at the bottom of the sweatshop pyramid. The Chinese, Korean and Mexican immigrant women, whose testimonies are included in this work, have courageously challenged restaurant owners, contractors, corporations, governments and transnational anti-labor treaties. Here is inspiration and leadership for the labor movement and for all of us who seek creative ways of mounting resistance to global capitalism.
-Angela Y. Davis, author of Women, Race and Class

All the good-hearted liberals who see themselves as saviors of downtrodden sweatshop workers must read this book. As Miriam Louie powerfully demonstrates, immigrant women themselves have been organizing and fighting back on the front lines of the class war against global capital, making political connections that many of today's traveling demonstrators are just starting to think about. We need to listen to these women. This is such a beautiful, moving book; the guiding light for the new labor movement.
-Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America

There's no one blueprint for organizing women workers in today's garment industry, but this book puts polyvocal voices and plans on the table. Organizers and academics interested in the power of labor organizing across relations of race, class, nation, and generation will find inspiration and keen insights in this book. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie connects the threads and weaves brilliant pathways to social justice.
-Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring In The Shadows Of Affluence

According to a popular political saying, "wherever there is oppression, there is resistance." In today's corporate-driven global economy where sweatshops have become the norm rather than the exception, it is easy to focus only on the oppresion. Long-time activist Miriam Ching Louie's important book tells the stories of the frontline warriors of resistance in the U.S. - the immigrant women sweatshop laborers who are tenaciously and creatively battling for justice and dignity. Through the organizing vehicles of community-based workers' centers, these Chinese, Korean and Latina immigrants are challenging not only the lynchpins of the corporate economy but also the traditional model of union organizing - as well as gender relations in their families and class dynamics in their ethnic communities. This book is essential reading for comunity organizers, for labor activists, and for others involved in grassroots campaigns taking on corporate globalization.
-Glenn Omatsu, Associate Editor, Amerasia Journal

A key weapon of the oppressor is to control the message - cover up the abuses, silence the sorrows and struggles of the oppressed. Luckily we have Miriam Ching Yoon Louie to listen and share the incredible stories of these sweatshop warriors - a women's movement the mainstream media has too long ignored. In the process, Miriam magnifies the women's voices and shines a bright light on the exploitation they challenge and the lessons they have to teach us all.
-Ellen Bravo, Co-Director, 9to5, National Association of Working Women

Comments from Back Cover

"This is such a beautiful, moving book; the guiding light for the new labor movement."
-Robin D. G. Kelley

"Miriam Ching Louie's Sweatshop Warriors introduces us to women who refuse to accept their assigned place at the bottom of the sweatshop pyramid. The Chinese, Korean and Mexican immigrant women whose testimonies are included in this work,...[provide] inspiration and leadership for all of us who seek creative ways of mounting resistance to global capitalism."
-Angela Y. Davis

"Organizers and academics...will find inspiration and keen insights in this book."
-Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

"Long-time activist Miriam Ching Louie's important book tells the stories of front-line warriors - the immigrant women sweatshop laborers who tenaciously battle for justice. Through community-based workers' centers, these Chinese, Korean and Latina immigrants are challenging not only the corporate economy but also the traditional model of union organizing - as well as gender relations in their families and class dynamics in their ethnic communities."
-Glenn Omatsu

Background on Miriam Ching Yoon Louie

Miriam Ching Yoon Louie works with the Women of Color Resource Center and formerly served as national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida and Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).