Recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. often find jobs working in sweatshops in New York City's Chinatown, where they work 16 or more hours a day in the garment industry, earning less than minimum wage. The big businesses that hire these illegal and often uninformed immigrants illustrate

A. exploitation theory.
B. a self-fulfilling prophecy.
C. the contact hypothesis.
D. labeling theory.


Answer: A

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What will be an ideal response?

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