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Organizing Asian American labor : the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry, 1870-1942 /

Between 1870 and 1942, people of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino ancestry toiled in the salmon canneries on coastal bays and streams from central California to western Alaska. Successive generations of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans formed the predominant body of workers in an industry that pl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friday, Chris, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994.
Colección:Asian American history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Spawning Grounds
  • 2. "Satisfaction in Every Case": Cannery Work and the Contract System
  • 3. Cannery Communities, Cannery Lives
  • 4. Competitors for the Chinese
  • 5. "Fecund Possibilities" for Issei and Nisei
  • 6. From Factionalism to "One Filipino Race"
  • 7. Indispensable Allies
  • 8. A Fragile Alliance.