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Chinese in the Woods

- Logging and Lumbering in the American West
Af: Sue Fawn Chung Engelsk Hardback

Chinese in the Woods

- Logging and Lumbering in the American West
Af: Sue Fawn Chung Engelsk Hardback
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Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
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Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9780252039447
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0252039440
Kategori: Etniske studier
Udg. Dato: 28 sep 2015
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 156mm
Højde: 235mm
Forlag: University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato: 28 sep 2015
Forfatter(e): Sue Fawn Chung
Forfatter(e) Sue Fawn Chung

Kategori Etniske studier

ISBN-13 9780252039447

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 264

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 156mm

Højde 235mm

Udg. Dato 28 sep 2015

Oplagsdato 28 sep 2015

Forlag University of Illinois Press

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