Enduring hardship : The Chinese laundry in Canada /

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"Faced with systematic discrimination in Canada, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century through the Second World War, a majority of Canada's Chinese immigrants were laundry workers in towns and cities from c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoe, Ban Seng
Autor Corporativo: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Canadiens d'origine chinoise > Histoire.
Blanchisseurs et teinturiers > Canada > Histoire.
Laundry workers.
Chinese.
Chinese > Canada > History.
Laundry workers > Canada > History.
Canada.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historical context
  • Laundry operation: toil and drudgery
  • An isolated and monotonous world: reflections on life experiences
  • Laundries and Canadian society
  • Conclusion: an unforgettable page in history.

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