Special thanks to the following individuals and organizations:
Garrett Brown is the godfather of this project. It would never have been completed without his patient advice, tireless support, and relentless networking through the Maquiladora Health and Safety Solidarity Network. Tom Gassert gave generously of his time and expertise, as did Jeong-ok Kong and members of KILSH and SHARPS, and Ted Smith and Mandy Hawes of ICRT; we couldn’t have produced the electronics section without them. Rory O’Neill of Hazards Magazine was a constant fount of information, resources, and networking connections. Apo Leong, Sanjiv Pandita, Omana George, Sally Choi, and others at the Asia Monitor Resource Center have accompanied this book since its start and we are thankful for all their support throughout the years. Jagdish Patel, Noel Colina, Melody Kemp, and Darisman Man were among the many in the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims (ANROEV) who, alongside Julia Quiñones at the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras in Mexico, shared their experience and knowledge with us, reminding us often why we were developing this book. Lynda Yanz, Ana Enriquez, and Kevin Thomas of the Canadian Maquila Solidarity Network provided essential connections and resources. Providing help in a myriad of ways from popular education techniques to hazard mitigation, we appreciate Suzanne Teran, Betty Szudy, Laura Stock, Diane Bush, Valeria Velazquez, Robin Dewey, and others at UC Berkeley’s Labor and Occupational Health Program, Katie Quan of UC Berkeley’s Labor Center, and Linda Delp, Deogracia Cornelio, Sarah Jacobs and others at UCLA’s Labor and Occupational Safety and Health program. Finally, our coworkers at Hesperian, past and present, provided personal and collective support to this project through its many iterations, and to them we give our heartfelt thanks.
A million thanks for their assistance to:
Suvechha Adhikari
Sarah Adler-Milstein
Lupita Aguila
Nasimul Ahsan
Babul Akhter
Shirin Akhter
Kalpona Akter
Donald Aleman
Nelly Amaya
Karen Andrews
Evangelina Argueta
Nina Ascoly
Syed Asif
Nasir Ateeq
Jeff Ballinger
Jordan Barab
Jorge Barajas
Sherry Baron
Irene Barrientos
Enrique Barrios
Dinorah Barton-Antonio
Nikki Bas
Lucrecia Bautista
Mary Bellman
María de la Paz Benavides Hernández
Blanca Blanco
Megan Bobier
Suchada Boonchoo
Tim Brady
David Bronkema
Jim Brophy
Earl Brown
Marianne Brown
Lorena Patricia Cabanillas
Sonia Cano Narvaez
Silvana Cappuccio
Martha Lorena Cárdenas
Teresa Casertano
Ariel Castro
Carla Castro
Jean-Marc Caudron
Magdalena Cerda
Martha Cervantes
Serapina Cha Mi-Kyung
Jackie Chan
Ka Wai Chan
Amber Channer
Mirai Chatterjee
Esther Chavez Cano
Helen Chen
Debby Cheng Yi Yi
Maria Chin Abdullah
Suetwah Choi
Edwin Christiawan
Soon-ok Chun
Suki Chung
Kirsten Clodius
Stephen Coats
Niza Concepcion
Floridalma Contreras
Dick Crosbie
Andrew Cutz
Melona Daclan
Glorene Das
Enrique Davalos
Caoimhe de Barra
Cindy de Erazo
Leonardo de Leon
Carmen Manuela Del Cid
Nelly Del Cid
Abdulhalim Demir
Kelly Dent
Blanca Velázquez Díaz
Leonor Dionne
Tess Dioquino
Alejandra Domenzain
Peter Dooley
Phil Drew
Jonathan Eaton
Daniel Edralin
David Egilman
Howard Ehrman
Jill Esbenshade
Rosa Marina Escobar
Steve Faulker
Catherine Feingold
Bridget Fellini
Maria Antonia Flores
Luzviminda Fortuna
Virginia Franco
Hannah Fritsch
Eric Frumin
Bartolo Fuentes
Homero Fuentes
Sugio Furuya
Simmi Gandhi
Gilberto García
Irene Garza
Leslie Gates
Olimpia Gatica
Pilar Gonzalez
Gino Govender
Jay Govender
Ariane Grau Crespo
Elizabeth Grossman
Rubenia Guadalupe
Marina Gutierrez
Catalina Guzmán
Catherine Muthoni
David Harrington
Robert Harrison
Katja Hemmerich
Nick Henwood
Jeff Hermanson
Eugenia Hernández
Ricardo Hernández
Rodrigo Hernández
Ygnacio Hernández
Josefina Hernández Ponce
Hannah Higginson
David Hornung
M. Delowar Hossain
Jim Howe
Emily Ilag
Janice Jacobson
Lily Jahan
Harsh Jaitli
Rubina Jamil
Herbert Jauch
Nityanand Jayaraman
Lucia Jayaseelan
Ana Jimenes
Richard Hirsh Jordi
Edwin Jurig
Rusti Jutajulu
Aanchal Kapur
Elizabeth Katz
Amarjeet Kaur
Margaret Keith
Naira Khan
Heiner Koehnen
Athit Kong
Mariano Kramer
Eva Kreisler
Andre Kriel
Yuling Ku
Jennifer Kuhlman
Evelina Kurki
Laura Kurre
Joe La Dou
Luisa Lange
Bill Lankford
Bjarne Larsen
Ka Mei Lau
Kimi Lee
Alberto Legall
Amparo Lennarduzzi
Michael Lesli
Parry Leung
Chuck Levenstein
Pedro Reyes Linares
Karen Lo Hui Yu Ling
Zhang Ling
Belinda Liu
Kaiming Liu
Joann Lo
Rene Loewenson
Sandra Lopez
Maria Teresa Loyola
Pheara Ly
Sam Maher
Pia Markkanen
José Amado Mancía Leiva
Margaret Mandago
Nasir Mansoor
Anton Marcus
Gladis Marroquín
Genevieve Martinez
Ramon Martinez
Rolando Fúnez Mateo
Lisa McGowan
Ilona Medrikat
Racheal Meiers
Fred Millar
John Miller
Nanette Miranda
Frank Mirer
Sujata Mody
Norma Molina
Karla Montalvo
Dunia Montoya Medina
Lisa Moore
Gemma J. Moraga
Dominique Muller
Karen Mulloy
Marcela Muñoz
Robin Munro
Beth Myers
Abby Nájera
Dulceamor Navarette
Sheikh Nazma
Jesper Neilson
Neil Newman
Nguyen Ngoc Nga
Pun Ngai
Qu Ning
Ganesh Nochur
Huberto Juárez Nuñez
Patricia Nyman Apollis
Dennis O’Brien
Liz O’Connor
Tom O’Connor
Martha Ojeda
Juliana Omale
Abed Onn
Surama Orantes
Dara O’Rourke
Lida Orta
Elisa Ortega
Miriam Ortega
Pedro Ortega Méndez
Mina Palacios
Hilda Palmer
Madhavi Panda
Lourdes Pantaleon
Pola Pantoja
John Pape
Luis Paredes
Maritza Paredes
Alison Paul
José Nelson Paz Velásquez
Robert Perillo
Sonia Pernillo
Gary Phillips
Magaly Pineda
Au Mei Po
Laura Podolsky
Jackie Pollock
Dimu Pratama
Malee Pruekpongsawalee
Patty Quinlan
Carolina Quinteros
Richard Rabin
Peter Rabinowitz
Saeed Rahimi
M. Mofizur Rahman
Reyna Ramirez Sanchez
Sandra Ramos
Rey Rasing
María Luisa Regalado
Marina Ríos
Beti Robles-Ortega
Yadira Minero Rodas
Lumi Rodríguez
Rita Isabel Romero
Sirajul Rony
Mila Rosenthal
Shakh Rumana
Monica Ruwanpathirana
Lilibeth Sabado
Omar Salazar
Albert Sales
Arnel Salvador
Raquel Sancho
Ratan Sarkin
Mary Sayupa
Peter Scholz
Yoem Seda
Ashling Seely
Mónica Segobia Moscoso
Dharmesh Shah
Mashuda Khatun Shefali
Janet Shenk
Ruth Sherer
Young Shin
Carolina Sierra
Arist Merdeka Sirait
Darius D. Sivin
Juliana So
Sim Socheata
Luis Solano
Chun Soon-ok
Juliana Soon-ok
Stan Sprague
Ashwini Sukthankar
Emiliana Tapia
Dorothy Tegeler
Michael Terry
Wanee Thitiprasert
Trina Tocco
Zernan Toledo
Anna Torriente
Sreyneath Touch
Marion Traub-Werner
Wilhelmina Trout
Rachel True
Cecilia Tuico
Marco Tulio Juárez
Juan Miguel Tumi
Laura Turiano
Jane Turner
Carmen Valadez Perez
Jim Vannoy
Clara Velasquez
Roberto Vivar
A. Viyakulamary
Etienne Vlok
Norbert Wagner
Chan Ka Wai
Cathy Walker
Phan Wanabriboon
Hsing-Chi Wang
Deborah Weinstock
Wyger Wentholt
Heather White
Sarah Widmer
Dorothy Wigmore
Michael Wilson
May Wong
Monina Wong
Michael Wright
Emelia Yanti
Cheryl Yip
Jim Young
Chan Yu
Wilber Zavala
Funders
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of:
Amnesty International - Ireland
Berger-Marks Foundation
California Wellness Foundation
Church of Sweden Youth
Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois
Egilman Family
Ford Foundation
General Service Foundation
Grousbeck Family Foundation/Lakeshore Foundation
He-Shan World Fund
Jadetree Foundation Trust
Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood, PLC
Lawson Valentine Foundation
Left Tilt Fund
Levi Strauss Foundation
Maquila Health and Safety Support Network
Moriah Fund
Panta Rhea Foundation
Partnership Foundation
Public Welfare Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word
Solidarité Mondiale
Solifonds
United Methodist Church - Women’s Division
West Foundation
Women Working Worldwide
We also thank the many individuals who contributed financially to make this book possible.
