policy of prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States; initiated in 1882. From the time of the U.S. acquisition of California (1848) there had been a large influx of Chinese laborers to the Pacific coast. They were encouraged to emigrate because of the need for cheap la...
Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the ...
Chinese workers were recruited by Central Pacific for the extremely dangerous work of building the tracks, eventually making up 90% of the labor force for the railroad. After it was finished in 1869, many Chinese immigrants settled here in Colorado, looking for gold. Chinese miners work in Colo...
Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States: Taken in the Year 1910, Vol. II, Population (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), 157, 174. Google Scholar Walter G. Beach, Oriental Crime in California. A Study of Offenses...
A decade ago, the census recorded the largest concentration of Chinese in the northernmost state of Baja California, on the U.S.-Mexico border across from California. The arrival of Chinese multinationals is leading an influx of “people from eastern China, m...
1 Caught under heavy fire, Capa dove for what little cover he could find, then shot all the film in his camera, and got out just barely.2 Stranded at a labor farm in California, her family managed to live on vegetables from the surrounding fields — as meager a living as any earned ...
CLCChicano/Latino Caucus(California Association for Counseling and Development) CLCCash-in-lieu of Commodities CLCCarrier Line Charge CLCCommon Leg Circuit(high density packaging of RF circuits) CLCCodes and Lattices in Cryptography(workshop)
CFLCalifornia Federation of Labor CFLChampions for Life CFLCatholic Forensic League CFLCoordinated Fire Line CFLChrist for Life CFLCleared Flight Level(air navigation) CFLCoefficient de Frottement Longitudinal(French: Longitudinal Friction Coefficient; road adhesion indicator) ...
Free Essay: Chinese Racism in California The Chinese Question When thousands of Chinese migrated to California after the gold rush the presence caused...
As in Africa, there are rumors that Chinese companies would import their own labor force instead of hiring locals. Surveys and evidence quoted by Lee suggest that—at least in Africa—Chinese contractors employ only a minority of skilled Chinese supervisors. The majority of workers—about 85–95...