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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Friday, Chris, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994.
Collection:Asian American history and culture.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.