Asian and Asian American workers resist oppression and shape their own lives

Very thoroughly researched in traditional and non-traditional sources, well-organized, and gracefully written, the volume will be of particular value of readers interested in immigration, ethnicity, labor, and the American West.
-Choice
An important book, addressing a major topic in ethnic, industrial, labor, and Western history with extraordinary rich coverage of the Chinese and Japanese and Filipinos in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. The research can only be described as awesome, quite extraordinary....This is a book which carries historical riches of value not only within but beyond the boundaries of this specific topic.
-Robert Kelley, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chris Friday is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University.

Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spawning Grounds 2. Satisfaction in Every Case: Cannery Work and the Contract System 3. Cannery Communities, Cannery Lives 4. Competitors for the Chinese 5. Fecund Possibilities for Issei and Nisei 6. From Factionalism to One Filipino Race 7. Indispensable Allies 8. A Fragile Alliance Conclusion Appendix Notes Index