Shen started to write her book in May 2014, right after she returned from Salt Lake City attending the 150th anniversary of Chinese workers' participation in building the Central Pacific Railroad, which was a railroad built eastward from Sacramento, California, to complete the western part...
“Professor Stabler” today is going to review nine companies operated in America by Chinese manufacturers. These large, well-funded companies, chosen and supported by China served to move vehicles from manufacturers in China to retail dealers in America. None of them survived in California. I ha...
The Chinese Exclusion Act: Directed by Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu. With Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei. The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already
There are countless Chinese massage parlors in Chinese enclaves across America, and countless Chinese women working in those parlors. Unlike exchange students with their TOEFL scores, these massage workers typically have only a junior high or high school education. Some may not have come to the US...
Seven years ago, Chang launched the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project to give a voice to Chinese migrant workers whose labor helped shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. "I've always been interested in railroad workers, because it's part of Chinese commun...
Wanxiang America has a policy: to re-invest every penny it made locally here into the local community. It has so far invested a total of 10 billion dollars in the United States, creating some 8,000 jobs for local workers. "We truly become a localized company in the United States," Ni...
Obese people may reduce their work quality and productivity in the case of illness. The situation of asking for a leave of absence from production reduces the working time and ultimately lowers work productivity, thus reducing workers’ prospects for employment, working ability, working hours, work...
Most participants are developing countries, all seeking to leverage collective strengths to address challenges such as inadequate infrastructure, lagging industrial development, limited industrialization, insufficient capital and technology, and a shortage of skilled workers, to promote their own economic and...
wages. Sen.John F. Miller of California, a proponent of the Chinese Exclusion Act, argued that the Chinese workers were “machine-like…ofobtusenerve, but little affected by heat or cold, wiry, sinewy, with muscles of iron.” Partly in response to thatstereotype,organized labourin the West...
world in recruiting and retaining female workers, and on the background of urban social life. Finally, Honig seeks to explain how this complex pattern of groups and loyalties was eventually to give rise to the politicized female work force which came to play its part in the labour movement of...