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Chinese Laundries

Tickets to Survival on Gold Mountain

by John Jung
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A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.

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    April 2, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781386430025

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      • ISBN: 9781386430025
      • File size: 5896 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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  • English

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