The Chinese and the iron road : building the transcontinental railroad /

This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad--but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Chang, Gordon H. (Editor), Fishkin, Shelley Fisher (Editor), Obenzinger, Hilton (Contributor), Hsu, Roland, 1961- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
Series:Asian America.
Subjects:
Central Pacific Railroad Company > Employees > History.
Central Pacific Railroad Company.
1800-1899
Railroad construction workers > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Foreign workers, Chinese > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Chinese > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Chinese.
Emigration and immigration.
Employees.
Foreign workers, Chinese.
Railroad construction workers.
China > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
China.
West United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad--but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781503609259
1503609251

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