Her research is internationally comparative and has focused primarily on the changing world of work, culture, politics on the bottom rungs of the global economy in countries such as South Korea, the U.S. and Canada. Since 2006, she has been involved in a long-term research collaboration with Young Shin, the Executive Director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. The project is a self-study, initiated by AIWA, that examines over three decades of experience organizing low-income Chinese and Korean immigrant women workers in the San Francisco Bay Area.