Alexander Saxton is Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
"Covering the latter part of the 19th century, from the beginning
of California's labor disorders to the re-enforcement of America's
racist immigration acts, The Indispensable Enemy gives important
background to America's prejudice toward Asians. . . . The
Indispensable Enemy is essential reading for students of Asian
America."
*Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars*
"The Indispensable Enemy will provide an essential source for
information and insight into this subject. Like others of this
genre, it is a serious work that deals intensively with the themes
suggested in the title. It provides not only the broad overview,
but a stimulating study of the subtleties, complexities, and
revealing nuances of the inter-relationships between the
anti-Chinese movement and California's organized labor
movement."
*American Historical Review*
"Alexander Saxton's work deserves widespread attention for its
valuable contribution to our understanding of Chinese immigration
as a crucial issue in the development of organized labor in
California during the last third of the nineteenth century. With a
fine hand the author traces the role of the "yellow specter" in the
training of labor leaders, in the in-fighting and factional
disputes during those decades, and in the development of the
sectional nature of organized labor on the West Coast as "a
regional labor center.""
*Pacific Historical Review*
"This study brings out in detail the complex of sentiments, ideas,
programs, organizations, and personalities covering several
decades. There are interesting analyses of key figures such as
Henry George, Denis Kearney, Frank Roney, Burnette Haskell,
Sigismund Danielewicz, and others. The California story is placed
within the context of the larger national situation of labor and
ethnic relations and their interactions, thus adding to its
interest and value."
*Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science*
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