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Journal articles on the topic "Foreign workers, Chinese – California – History"

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Lee, Ching Kwan. "Precarization or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China." Journal of Asian Studies 75, no. 2 (2016): 317–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911815002132.

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Labor scholars have highlighted the predicament of “precarization” besetting the working class everywhere in the twenty-first century. Beneath the “proletariat” now stands the “precariat,” for whom exploitation seems like a privilege compared to constant exclusion from the labor market. Amidst worldwide employment informalization and decimation of workers’ collective capacity, media reports and academic writings on Chinese workers in the past several years have singularly sustained a curious discourse of worker empowerment. Strikes in some foreign-invested factories have inspired claims of ris

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Saitua, Iker. "KARUKA, Manu, Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, University of California Press, Oakland, 2019, 297 pp." Historia Contemporánea, no. 64 (October 1, 2020): 1056–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/hc.21628.

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López, Marco Antonio Samaniego. "Formación y consolidación de las organizaciones obreras en Baja California, 1920-1930." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 14, no. 2 (1998): 329–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1051932.

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The article examines the various ways in which labor organizations began to form in Baja California. Because of the nature of the Porfirian political economy, which led to the preeminence of North American capital and the introduction of Chinese laborers, particularly in the Mexicali Valley, the first efforts of Mexican workers were directed against foreigners. This did not prevent them, however, from establishing ties with groups in southern California, principally in the Imperial Valley and in Mexicali. In Ensenada, where conditions were quite different, the stevedores organized to control t

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Zhang, Tracy Y. "From China to the Big Top: Chinese Acrobats and the Politics of Aesthetic Labor, 1950–2010." International Labor and Working-Class History 89 (2016): 40–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547915000332.

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AbstractSince the mid-1980s, North American circus shows have imported jaw-dropping acrobatic acts from the People's Republic of China. This article examines the shifting politics of body and labor that facilitate the international recruitment of Chinese acrobats. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, this study analyzes how a socialist labor hierarchy and ideas of ownership shape acrobats’ relationships with the Chinese state. Since the 1980s, these politics of labor and body have shifted in accordance with the accelerated commercialization of acrobatics, facilitating the

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Thränhardt, Dietrich. "Between State and Market: Local Governments and Immigration." German Politics and Society 16, no. 4 (1998): 68–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/104503098782487040.

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In the mid- to late-nineteenth century, millions of Germans emigratedto the New World. Today, however, immigration to Germanyis an integral aspect of everyday life in the country. The consequencesof immigration are far-reaching, ranging from the wealth ofculinary options offered by Italian, Greek, or Chinese restaurants, tothe social costs of employing thousands of foreign workers in Germany’sconstruction sector. In the Ruhr River area, Germany’slargest industrial melting pot, Turkish names are now as common asPolish names—the latter representing an immigrant group that settledin the area some

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Angevine, Robert G. "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad. By Manu Karuka (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2019) 318 pp. $85.00 cloth $29.95 paper." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50, no. 4 (2020): 616–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01505.

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Zulueta, Benjamin C. "Master of the Master Gland: Choh Hao Li, the University of California, and Science, Migration, and Race." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 39, no. 2 (2009): 129–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2009.39.2.129.

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This essay examines the origins of the relationship between Choh Hao Li and the University of California, Berkeley. Li came to the United States from China in 1935 for graduate study at the University of Michigan, but ended up enrolling at Berkeley. Over the course of the next two decades, Li went from being a foreign graduate student in chemistry on a temporary visa to an internationally recognized leader in the biochemistry of endocrinology at the head of his own laboratory and a naturalized citizen of the United States. At what was otherwise a dark time for Americans of Chinese descent, Li

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Mungello, D. E. "Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. By Eric Reinders. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+266, 10 illustrations. $49.95 (cloth)." History of Religions 46, no. 4 (2007): 369–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/518814.

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KING, AMY. "Reconstructing China: Japanese technicians and industrialization in the early years of the People's Republic of China." Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 1 (2015): 141–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x15000074.

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AbstractThe Chinese Communist Party was confronted with the pressing challenge of ‘reconstructing’ China's industrial economy when it came to power in 1949. Drawing on recently declassified Chinese Foreign Ministry archives, this article argues that the Party met this challenge by drawing on the expertise of Japanese technicians left behind in Northeast China at the end of the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1953, when they were eventually repatriated, thousands of Japanese technicians were used by the Chinese Communist Party to develop new technology and industrial techniques, train less s

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Zhang, Xiaodan. "A Path to Modernization: A Review of Documentaries on Migration and Migrant Labor in China - Manufactured Landscapes (2007) 90 minutes. Director: Jennifer Baichwal. Director of photography: Peter Mettler. Produced by Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, and Jennifer Baichwal. Released by Zeitgeist Films. - Bing Ai (2007) 114 minutes. Director, writer, and producer: Feng Yan. http://www.cidfa.com/modules/index.php - Up the Yangtze (2008) 94 minutes. Writer and director: Yung Chang. Director of photography: Wang Shi Qing. Producers: Mila Aung-Thwin, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong, and John Christou. Released by Zeitgeist Films. - Losers and Winners (2007) 96 minutes. Directors: Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken. Released by Icarus Films. - China Blue (2005) 86 minutes. Producer and director: Micha X. Peled. Released by Bullfrog Films. - Mardi Gras (2007) 74 minutes. Producer, director, and editor: David Redmon. Directors of photography: David Redmon and Kathleen Rivera. Released by Carnivalesque Films. - A Decent Factory (2005) 79 minutes. Directed, written, and produced by Thomas Balmès for Margot Films/BBC, and Kaarle Aho for Making Movies. Released by First Run/Icarus Films." International Labor and Working-Class History 77, no. 1 (2010): 174–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547909990317.

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None of the award-winning films reviewed in this article has a blissful tone. In these films, we watch young girls in assembly lines producing all sorts of commodities in China as well as four hundred Chinese workers disassembling a coking plant in Germany. We are immersed in people's personal stories, such as a peasant woman forced to leave her farm and her lone hut, located in the area due to be submerged by the Three Gorges Dam project, and a sixteen-year-old girl learning to labor on a cruise ship along the Yangtze River. In most of the films we also meet managers, Chinese or foreign, who

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Foreign workers, Chinese – California – History"

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Lee, Jane M. "Fidelity and industry the archaeology of a late-nineteenth century Chinese woodcutter camp in Dog Valley, California /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456408.

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Yang, Caroline Hyo Jung. "Reconstruction's labor : the Asian worker in narratives of U.S. culture and history, 1890-1930 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9521.

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Molenda, John Paul. "Historical Archaeologies of Overseas Chinese Laborers on the First Transcontinental Railroad." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-33zv-z109.

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This dissertation relies on anthropological, historical, and archaeological research in order to describe the historical archaeologies associated with Chinese immigrants to the United States who worked on the first transcontinental railroad in the mid-nineteenth century. The region of focus in the High Sierras region to the west of Truckee, California, in and around the Tahoe National Forest

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Books on the topic "Foreign workers, Chinese – California – History"

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Saxton, Alexander. The indispensable enemy: Labor and the anti-Chinese movement in California. University of California Press, 1995.

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Mead, George R. A history of Union county: With an appendix, the Chinese in Oregon. E-Cat Worlds, 2006.

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Guba Hua gong diao cha lu: A survey of Chinese labors in Cuba. Shanghai shu dian chu ban she, 2014.

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Mead, George R. A history of the Chinese in the West, 1848-1880. E-Cat Worlds, 2011.

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Yongxiu, Tian, ed. Liu Fa qin gong jian xue yun dong zhong de Sichuan qing nian. Ba Shu shu she, 2004.

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Jin shan: Gold mountain blues. Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2010.

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Zhongguo guo jia tu shu guan. Qing ji Hua gong dang an. Quan guo tu shu guan wen xian suo wei zhong xin, 2008.

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guan, Zhongguo guo jia tu shu. Qing ji Hua gong dang an. Quan guo tu shu guan wen xian suo wei zhong xin, 2008.

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Chun, Allen John Uck Lun. Toward a political economy of the sojourning experience: The Chinese in 19th century Malaya. Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 1988.

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Dark sweat, white gold: California farm workers, cotton, and the New Deal. University of California Press, 1994.

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Reinders, Eric. "Missions in Chinese History." In Borrowed Gods and Foreign BodiesChristian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion. University of California Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520241718.003.0002.

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Rosenthal, Gregory. "Beckwith’s Pilikia." In Beyond Hawai'i. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295063.003.0007.

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For Native workers returning to Hawaiʻi in the second half of the nineteenth century, they found an almost unrecognizable economy and environment. Following the Māhele, Euro-American settlers had made Hawaiʻi their home and were intent on reorganizing labor and land to serve global capitalism. Chapter six examines the rise of the sugar plantation system in Hawaiʻi, and how Hawaiʻi’s sugar history—so often linked with histories of U.S. empire—was actually part of the same trans-Pacific story of oceanic industrialization through sandalwooding, whaling, guano mining, and gold mining. But the new migrant workers at this time were not Hawaiian “kanakas,” they were Chinese “coolies.” George Beckwith’s plantation at Haʻikū, Maui, is used as a case study for exploring the intersections and entanglements of Hawaiian and Chinese labor in this period. By 1880, Chinese and other non-Natives outnumbered Hawaiian workers in the sugar industry, and across the Pacific World the collapse of extractive industries such as whaling, guano mining, and gold mining left Hawaiʻi’s diasporic working class disjointed and disempowered. The end result was the dismemberment of the Hawaiian working class.

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"Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907." In Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers. BRILL, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004280144_015.

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Ngai, Mae M. "The True Story of Ah Jake." In Cultures in Motion. Princeton University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691159096.003.0008.

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This chapter examines how the issues of language, labor, and justice intertwined in the murder trial of Ah Jake, a Chinese gold miner in nineteenth-century California. The focus is on the transcript of the Sierra County court's hearing in October 1887, on whether to bring the charge of murder against Ah Jake for the killing of another miner, Wah Chuck. Much of the hearing took place in pidgin, or Chinglish. The chapter first tells the story of Ah Jake and how he came to stand trial for murder before discussing the cross-cultural relations between Anglo, Mexican, and Chinese workers in the gold fields of nineteenth-century California. It suggests that the traces of history that can be gleaned from Ah Jake's trial and pardon, when considered within the frame of transpacific circulations of people, language, and organization, produce new knowledge about social relations in the late-nineteenth-century California interior.

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