Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism

"A pioneering subaltern history of immigrant workers and their relationship to law and legal institutions in the 20th century." —The Law & Society Review

Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethnic perse...