C. Lee, Prostitutes and Picture Brides
nDeveloping
the Western United States
nEconomic development (cheap labor)
nChinese women kept out because bachelor work force
was cheap for mining and railroad construction.
nPermanent settlement (family settlement)
nJapanese immigrants needed on West Coast because
of turn of the century labor shortage in agriculture. Farming benefits from family labor—Japanese
women, unlike Chinese women, were allowed to join their
husbands.