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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Friday, Chris, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Cannery workers > Labor unions > Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Salmon canneries > Pacific Coast (U.S.) > Employees.
Asian Americans > Employment > Pacific Coast (U.S.)
Conserveries > Personnel > Syndicats > Pacifique, Côte du (États-Unis)
Conserveries de saumon > Pacifique, Côte du (États-Unis) > Personnel.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Travail > Pacifique, Côte du (États-Unis)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Asian Americans > Employment
Cannery workers > Labor unions
Konservenindustrie
Arbeitsbeziehungen
Fischindustrie
Asiatischer Einwanderer
Geschichte 1870-1942.
United States > Pacific Coast
Pazifikküste
USA
Asiaten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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