Asian American Issues Relating to Labor, Economics, and Socioeconomic Status (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

In the late l9th and early 20th century, labor issues fanned the flames of anti-Asian sentiment, as they continue to do to this day. These essays explore the topics of immigration and work, ethnic economics and enclaves, the role of middlemen minorities, Southeast Asian refugee employment, and issues of class, hierarchy, immigrant recruitment, intra-community exploitation, and poverty in Asian American communities.