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Chinese in the Woods
2015
Overview
Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
/ Chinese
/ Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
/ Foreign workers, Chinese -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
/ History
/ Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
/ Loggers
/ Loggers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
/ Lumber trade - Social aspects - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century
/ Lumbermen -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
/ West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
/ West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
ISBN
9780252039447, 0252039440, 0252097556, 9780252097553
