University Labor

KATIE QUAN

University of California * Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Center for Labor Research and Education

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http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu

Work

1998-pres. Center for Labor Research and Education, Institute for Research on Labor and

Employment, University of California, Berkeley

Positions: Chair, Associate Chair, Director of Labor Education, Director of John F.

Henning Center on International Labor Relations, UCB Affiliated Faculty of Institute of

East Asian Studies

2011-pres. Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam)

Visiting Scholar

2007-2008 Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Labor Program (New York City)

Visiting Scholar

1984-1998 International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and its successor, the Union of

Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)

Positions: International Vice-President, District Council Manager, Trust Fund

Administrator, Credit Union Loan Officer, New York Metropolitan Assistant Organizing

Director, Organizer, Membership Trainer, Community Liaison

1975-1983 New York garment factories

Positions: Seamstress, Shop Steward, Child Care Committee Chair

Education

1988-1989 Columbia University, Charles H. Revson Fellowship

Graduate studies in History

1983-1984 Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Labor Program, New York City

1973-1974 University of California, Berkeley

B.A. Sociology, Phi Beta Kappa

1972-1973 Chinese University of Hong Kong

1970-1972 University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Recent Publications

Workers and Communities versus Walmart: A Comparison of Organized Resistance in the United Stated

and China. In Anita Chan, ed., Walmart in China. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011, pp. 239-

251.

The China Watch, (book review of New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women

Workers in China, By Yan Hairong). New Labor Forum, Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 2010, 93-95.

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New Approaches to Organizing Women and Young Workers: Social Media & Work Family Issues, with

Netsy Firestein and Deborah King, July 2010.

Memories of the 1982 ILGWU Strike in New York Chinatown, in Amerasia Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1,

2009.

Evolving Labor Relations in the Women s Apparel Industry. In Charles J. Whalen, ed., New Directions

in the Study of Work and Employment. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. December 2008.

Use of Global Value Chains by Labor Organizers. Competition and Change. Vol. 12, No. 1, March

2008, pages 89-104.

Women Crossing Borders to Organize, in Cobble, Dorothy Sue, The Sex of Class: Women and the

Future of U.S. Labor Movements. Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2007.

Unions Need to Talk. International Union Rights. Vol. 11, Issue 4, 2004.

Global Strategies for Workers: How Class Analysis Clarifies Us and Them and What We Need to Do,

in Zweig, Michael, What s Class Got To Do With It? Ithaca: Cornell ILR Press, 2004.

Strategies for Garment Worker Empowerment in the Global Economy. U.C. Davis Journal of

International Law & Policy. Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2003.

China and the American Anti-Sweatshop Movement. China Rights Forum: The Journal of Human

Rights in China. No. 1, April 2003.

Advancing an Asian Agenda for Immigration Reform. Harvard University: Asian American Policy

Review. Vol. 12, 2003.

Homecare Worker Organizing in California: An Analysis of a Successful Strategy. Labor Studies

Journal. Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 2002.

Race, Class and Gender in the U.S. Labor Movement. New York: New Labor Forum, Queens College

Labor Resource Center. No. 8, Spring/Summer 2001.

Union Organizing in California: Challenges and Opportunities, with Carol Zabin and Linda Delp, in

Paul Ong and James Lincoln, eds., State of California Labor. Los Angeles: UC Institutes of Industrial

Relations, 2001.

A Global Labor Contract: The Case of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between United Airlines

and the Association of Flight Attendants. Transfer 1/00 Antwerp: The European Trade Union Institute.

Vol. 6, No. 1, 2000.

The State of the Art of Social Dialogue in the U.S. The State of the Art of Tripartite Relationships.

Geneva: International Labour Organisation, 2000.

Recent Grants and Awards Received

2012 Ford Foundation grant for developing relationships between U.S. and Chinese

sociologists

2012 SEIU for international labor standards

2012 American Center for International Labor Solidairty for conference on labor standards

2011 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies faculty research grant

2010-2012 Development Alternatives International for consulting and training on collective

bargaining in Vietnam

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2010 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies faculty research grant

2009 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies for China Labor Working group seminar

2009 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies for China labor conference travel

2008 Ford Foundation travel grant for Hong Kong conference on corporate accountability

2008 Berger Marks Foundation for studying young workers organizing methods (with Labor

Project for Working Families and Cornell Industrial and Labor Relations School)

2008 UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies for Digital Quilt

2008 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund for Digital Quilt

2008 Asian Women Giving Circle for Digital Quilt

2006 Panta Rhea Foundation for retail supply chains

2005, 2006, Rosenberg Foundation for student internships with unions and community groups

2009

2005, 2007 The California Wellness Foundation for the California Lead Organizers Institute

2005 Australia National University with Anita Chan and Pun Ngai for establishing a network of

Pacific Rim researchers on supply chain practices in China

2005 UC Labor and Employment Fund for research on the effects of the Multi-Fiber

Arrangement on workers

2003, 2004 U.S. State Department for labor rights training in China

2003 AFL-CIO Solidarity Center for case studies of best practices in worker organizing in

export processing zones in Asia, Latin America and Africa; writing popular education

curriculum based on those case studies; and facilitating convening of worker leaders from

17 countries to test materials

2001 UC Institute for Labor and Employment conference grant for studying methods of

monitoring codes of conduct in the global apparel industry

2001 UC Institute for Labor and Employment conference grant for developing a research

agenda for current immigration policy

1999 UC Pacific Rim Research Grant for planning research on the impact of codes of conduct

in the apparel industry

Selected Recent Major Projects

2007-pres. Executive Producer and Principal Investigator, Digital Quilt

2006-pres. Principal Investigator, research on most effective union leadership

2005-pres. Convenor, UC Berkeley Labor in China Working Group

2003-2006 Chair, Center for Labor Research and Education

2006 Co-Convenor, Renmin University Conference on Labor Rights in the Global Economy

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2003-pres. Principal Investigator, China labor rights training

2003-2006 Principal Investigator, Toolkit for Workers Organizing in Export Processing Zones

1999-pres. Director, John F. Henning Center for International Labor Relations, UC Berkeley Labor

Center

2002 Principal Investigator, research on the State of Labor Education in the U.S.

1999-2001 Principal Investigator, research project on effectiveness of codes of conduct

2002 Executive Producer, Trade Secrets (video curriculum on Free Trade Area of the

Americas)

2000 Chief Facilitator, Indonesian Women Workers Conference

1999-2001 Convenor, Labor Immigrant Organizers Network

Selected Recent Presentations

3/11 Cooper Union Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Commemoration presenter

3/11 City University of New York Triangle Shirtwaist Fire conference panel speaker

2/10 UC Santa Barbara women s lecture series on sweatshops guest lecturer

10/10 Vietnam Tripartite Conference on Collective Bargaining keynote speaker

10/09 Renmin University and Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions collective bargaining

in the apparel industry

8/09 Stanford Law School plenary presenter on effectiveness of codes of conduct

4/09 Penn State University seminar presenter on assessing the anti-sweatshop movement

6/08 National Council for Research on Women speaker on immigration

4/08 Columbia University seminar presenter on labor in China

3/08 Youngstown State University guest lecturer on The China Conundrum

2/08 Rutgers University guest lecturer on China labor

2/08 Demos Forum re-assessing the anti-sweatshop movement

1/08 UC Santa Cruz conference presenter on assessing the anti-sweatshop movement

3/07 Cornell ILR and CUNY plenary panel on women organizing across borders

2/07 Sonoma State University Labor and Social Action conference plenary key note speaker

on immigration reform

1/07 KQED (PBS San Francisco) panelist on film premier of China from the Inside

11/06 UC Davis Women and Work seminar series presenter on women organizing across

borders

10/06 American Studies Conference workshop panelist on labor studies in crisis

10/06 Beihang University (China) guest lecture on labor and supply chains

10/06 Shenzhen University(China) guest lecture on labor and supply chains

5/06 California Labor Federation Workforce and Economic Development conference keynote

plenary panelist

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5/06 Yale University Law School guest lecturer on women workers in the global economy

4/06 Renmin University, China presenter on the anti-sweatshop movement

11/05 Grantmakers Without Borders China Forum presenter on China and the global

economy

10/05 Environmental Grantmakers Association annual meeting presenter on labor rights in

China

9/05 University of Alaska Bookstore guest lecturer on labor in the global economy

5/05 Yale University presenter on global supply chains

11/04 City University of New York plenary panelist on future of the U.S. labor movement:

global economy

8/04 American Sociological Association presenter on China and the global economy

4/04 Duke University Chinese American Inter-Collegiate Council presenter on anti-

sweatshop strategies

9/03 Harvard University The Color Lines Conference presenter on race and class

11/02 Renmin University, China plenary presenter on China and the American anti-

sweatshop movement

9/02 International Employment Research Association plenary presenter on new forms of

employer-employee relations

7/01 U.S. Bishop s Conference s Call To Action lecturer on sweatshops in the global

economy

1/02 Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India guest lecturer on women in the U.S.

informal economy

3/01 Pacific Sociological Association panel presenter on building a working women s

movement in Indonesia

11/00 Indonesian Women Workers Conference keynote speaker on global labor

5/00 Harvard Trade Union Program speech on work and family issues in the labor

movement

4/00 AFL-CIO Hearing on Immigration Policy invited speech

12/99 International Labour Organisation paper presentation on the state of the art of social

dialogue in the U.S.

11/99 International Forum on Globalization plenary speech on labor and the WTO

6/99 Working for America Institute (AFL-CIO) Annual Conference invited plenary

respondent on high road partnerships

5/99 United Nations Association, San Francisco Annual Meeting speech on labor standards

and sweatshops

4/99 Vietnam Institute for Health and Safety lecture on health and safety issues for garment

workers

4/99 University of the Philippines Labor and Industrial Relations lecture on impact of

labor standards on unions

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3/99 Cambodian Institute for Peace and Cooperation/USIS keynote speech on contributions

of the labor movement

9/98 United Nations DPI-NGO 50th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

plenary speech on sweatshops and the Universal Declaration

Current Volunteer Work

New Labor Forum, Editorial Board

California Speaker s Commission on Labor Education Commissioner

Institute for Quality Public Services Board member

Labor Project for Working Families Board Treasurer

Workers Rights Consortium Board member

International Labor Rights Forum Board member

Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (Hong Kong) Advisory Board member

Awards Received

Asian American Federation of Union Members

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (AFL-CIO)

Asian Week

Chinese American Historical Society

City of Hope

Coalition of Labor Union Women (AFL-CIO)

KGO-TV (ABC) Community Activists

League of Women Voters

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day Committee

National Council of Christians and Jews

National Kidney Foundation

National Organization for Women

Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition

Washington High School Alumni Association

Who s Who in Asian America

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Computer Proficiency

Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Entourage, Publisher, Paint, Office Live. Working knowledge of

Chinese MS Word, Access, Quicken.

Languages

English and Chinese

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