diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-17-11-19-24.gh-issue-96883.p_gr62.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-17-11-19-24.gh-issue-96883.p_gr62.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2258ce8ab9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2022-09-17-11-19-24.gh-issue-96883.p_gr62.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+``wasm32-emscripten`` builds for browsers now include
+:mod:`concurrent.futures` for :mod:`asyncio` and :mod:`unittest.mock`.
diff --git a/Tools/wasm/wasm_assets.py b/Tools/wasm/wasm_assets.py
index a35acfd9387..98a2841ce2b 100755
--- a/Tools/wasm/wasm_assets.py
+++ b/Tools/wasm/wasm_assets.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ OMIT_FILES = (
     # Pure Python implementations of C extensions
     "_pydecimal.py",
     "_pyio.py",
+    # concurrent threading
+    "concurrent/futures/thread.py",
     # Misc unused or large files
     "pydoc_data/",
     "msilib/",
@@ -98,13 +100,12 @@ OMIT_MODULE_FILES = {
     "_dbm": ["dbm/ndbm.py"],
     "_gdbm": ["dbm/gnu.py"],
     "_json": ["json/"],
-    "_multiprocessing": ["concurrent/", "multiprocessing/"],
+    "_multiprocessing": ["concurrent/futures/process.py", "multiprocessing/"],
     "pyexpat": ["xml/", "xmlrpc/"],
     "readline": ["rlcompleter.py"],
     "_sqlite3": ["sqlite3/"],
     "_ssl": ["ssl.py"],
     "_tkinter": ["idlelib/", "tkinter/", "turtle.py", "turtledemo/"],
-
     "_zoneinfo": ["zoneinfo/"],
 }
 
@@ -117,21 +118,18 @@ SYSCONFIG_NAMES = (
 
 
 def get_builddir(args: argparse.Namespace) -> pathlib.Path:
-    """Get builddir path from pybuilddir.txt
-    """
+    """Get builddir path from pybuilddir.txt"""
     with open("pybuilddir.txt", encoding="utf-8") as f:
         builddir = f.read()
     return pathlib.Path(builddir)
 
 
 def get_sysconfigdata(args: argparse.Namespace) -> pathlib.Path:
-    """Get path to sysconfigdata relative to build root
-    """
+    """Get path to sysconfigdata relative to build root"""
     data_name = sysconfig._get_sysconfigdata_name()
     if not data_name.startswith(SYSCONFIG_NAMES):
         raise ValueError(
-            f"Invalid sysconfig data name '{data_name}'.",
-            SYSCONFIG_NAMES
+            f"Invalid sysconfig data name '{data_name}'.", SYSCONFIG_NAMES
         )
     filename = data_name + ".py"
     return args.builddir / filename
@@ -142,20 +140,26 @@ def create_stdlib_zip(
     *,
     optimize: int = 0,
 ) -> None:
+    def filterfunc(filename: str) -> bool:
+        pathname = pathlib.Path(filename).resolve()
+        return pathname not in args.omit_files_absolute
+
     with zipfile.PyZipFile(
-        args.wasm_stdlib_zip, mode="w", compression=args.compression, optimize=optimize
+        args.wasm_stdlib_zip,
+        mode="w",
+        compression=args.compression,
+        optimize=optimize,
     ) as pzf:
         if args.compresslevel is not None:
             pzf.compresslevel = args.compresslevel
         pzf.writepy(args.sysconfig_data)
         for entry in sorted(args.srcdir_lib.iterdir()):
+            entry = entry.resolve()
             if entry.name == "__pycache__":
                 continue
-            if entry in args.omit_files_absolute:
-                continue
             if entry.name.endswith(".py") or entry.is_dir():
                 # writepy() writes .pyc files (bytecode).
-                pzf.writepy(entry)
+                pzf.writepy(entry, filterfunc=filterfunc)
 
 
 def detect_extension_modules(args: argparse.Namespace):
@@ -236,7 +240,9 @@ def main():
         if not extmods.get(modname):
             omit_files.extend(modfiles)
 
-    args.omit_files_absolute = {args.srcdir_lib / name for name in omit_files}
+    args.omit_files_absolute = {
+        (args.srcdir_lib / name).resolve() for name in omit_files
+    }
 
     # Empty, unused directory for dynamic libs, but required for site initialization.
     args.wasm_dynload.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)