Abstract
The first Cambodian families arrived in Lowell (Massachusetts) in the early 80s, most of them as refugees, victims of a brutal regime. Since then, the city has grown into the second largest Cambodian-American population in the U.S., behind only Long Beach, California. Cambodian workers are employed in labor-intensive jobs as well as in the service industry in the Lowell area and its surroundings. As many other immigrant groups in the U.S., they face several work and non-work related problems above and beyond their various language and culture barriers. In this paper the author presents results of a pilot study aimed at exploring Cambodian workers' perceptions of their conditions of work and the impact of such conditions in their quality of working life.
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