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This article presents information on the book "Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory," by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie. Between 1997 and 2000, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie interviewed Chinese, Korean, and Mexican immigrant women who are active in five community workers' centers in New York, California, and Texas. In this volume, she analyzes the colonial and global economic conditions in their home countries that led these women to emigrate and that prepared them for work in U.S. sweatshops. She describes how restaurant, garment, and manufacturing workers challenge sexual harassment, violations of wage and hour laws, and mass layoffs, most successfully in campaigns against Levi Strauss, Donna Karan, and Los Angeles's Koreatown restaurants.

The article focuses on the book "The I.L.O. Year-Book, 1939-40." The International Labour Office Year-Book for 1939-40 marks the completion of 20 years' activity by this organization. The importance of war to the matters treated is explicit or implicit in almost every paragraph and the frequent references to Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the Scandinavian countries provide much information, which has undoubtedly been out-distanced by events. Regarding the countries that are or have been members of the United Nations International Labour Organization, material is presented on a wide variety of subjects. The article discusses topics like industrial organization and social movements, economic developments, conditions of work, social insurance, assistance to mobilized men and war victims, remuneration of labor, employment and unemployment, migration and labour law.

The article reviews the book "Sur-Norte: Estudios sobre la emigración reciente de argentinos," published by Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani.

The article reviews the book "Aprendiendo a ser marroquíes. Inmigración, diversidad lingüística y escuela," by Laura Mijares.

The article reviews the book " 'Y así nos entendemos'. Lenguas y comunicación en la emigración," by Beatriz Díaz.

The article reviews the book "Integraciones diferenciadas: migraciones en Cataluña, Galicia y Andalucía," edited by Carlota Solé and Antonio Izquierdo.

The article reviews the book "Y vendrán...las migraciones en tiempos hostiles," by Sami Naïr.