Kammu (Khmu') road crew : Luang Prabang

Photographer

Halpern, Joel M. (Joel Martin), 1929-

Date

• 1957

Summary

• In the past, more powerful groups like the Lao or Black Tai would recruit tribal peoples such as these to projects by corvee, hence the pejorative term "Kha" or slaves. Although now they do it for low-wage labor, the attitudes persist.