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...
We argue that existing American laws prevented the effective use of a legal indenture system when Chinese laborers began to arrive in California in the 1850s, but that Chinese merchants in San Francisco developed extralegal means of operating a bound labor system. We explore the conduct of this...
They hired a modern Chinese teacher of Chinese for the first time. And lipstick, and we were teenagers, and she came in, and she really did not think much of us, the wealthy people, saying, you don’t know what is going on outside … and for some reason I felt she was totally u...
three dimensions of social exclusion significantly influence participants living in poverty: exclusion from social and civic engagement; exclusion from asset building, with no homeownership or retirement-pension ownership; and exclusion from the labor market, with limited work opportunities and income from ...
andLi Lisanbegan organizing labor unions in the cities. The CCP joined with theNationalist Partyin 1924, and the alliance proved enormously successful at first. However, in 1927, after the Nationalists underChiang Kai-shek(Jiang Jieshi) turned violently against the communists and ousted them from...
Chinese immigration and contract labor in the late nineteenth century This paper considers why the Chinese migrants who came to California in the late 19th century were not indentured, and what their contractual status in the United States actually was. We argue that existing American laws prevented...
The white supremacy, legal discrimination and vulnerable situations in labor markets caused members from both communities to overcome intrinsic differences and to interact with each other in workplaces and commercial stores, and to even share residences. However, after 1882, the American exclusive laws...
Labor Code by failing to provide adequate rest breaks to employees involved, Section 510 of the California Labor Code by failing to pay proper overtime wages, Sections 203 and 226 (a) of the California Labor code by providing involved employees paystubs not in compliance with California law and...
Standing while Latino: Understanding day labor ordinances in California cities As day laborers continue to seek work in suburban communities throughout Southern California, the reaction of cities and communities to presence of this ne... EJ Erickson - Dissertations & Theses - Gradworks 被引量: 0发...
Chinese in California may also avoid delivering on the 4th, 14th, and 24th of month. Abstract The number eight is considered lucky in Chinese culture, e.g. the Beijing Olympics began at 8:08 pm on 8/8/2008. Given the potential for discretion in selecting particular dates of labor inductio...