The Localized History Project

Endnotes

Organized Labor in Chinatown

Bao, Xiaolan. Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 

Dandelion, River. "How Chinese American Women Changed U.S. Labor History." The Margins, a project of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, May 1, 2019. 

Katz, Daniel. "A Walk Through the Rich History of Struggle in Manhattan’s Chinatown." Jacobin, August 5, 2022. 

Sietsema, Robert. "Over a Century of Food and Change in Chinatown." MOFAD digital publication, date unknown. 

Zhang, Shouyue, "“Learned from Black Friends”: The Asian-American Struggle for Housing and Equal Employment in New York City, 1969 – 1974." History Honors Program of University at Albany, State University of New York University at Albany, State University of New York, 2020. 

Restaurant Work and the CSWA 

Bragg, Chris. "Chinatown labor warriors reflect on battles." amNY, March 29, 2007.

Lee, Josephine. "A Picket Line With History." The Village Voice, January 22, 2002. 

Kwong, Peter. "Answers About the Gentrification of Chinatown." The New York Times, 

Youth Solidarity and Activism 

Gordy, Molly. "Fork Over 1M, Eatery Told." NY Daily News, September 22, 1995. 

Lee, Felicia. "COPING; Working Overtime to Vanquish Sweatshops." The New York Times, December 12, 1999.

Quittner, Jeremy. "A Loud End to Strike." Newsday, June 12, 1995.  

Betty Yu's Documentary

Resilience, directed by Betty Yu, produced by Betty Yu. New York, NY: Third World Newsreel, 2001, 18 minutes.

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