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New Immigrants - New Sweatshops

[chinese workers]

Chinese garment workers, Chinatown, New York City, about 1983
Photographer: Harvey Wang
Courtesy Harvey Wang

[hispanic workders]

Mexican garment workers, Brooklyn, New York, 1989
Photographer: Dani Steele
Courtesy Dani Steele

International and national political upheavals spurred new waves of immigration in the late 1960s and early 1970s. New arrivals included Asians from China, Korea, and throughout Southeast Asia, and Latinos from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America.


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