TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibson,Peter Charles
TI  - Made in Chinatown: Chinese Australian Furniture Factories, 1880-1930 
T2  - China and the West in the Modern World
SN  - 9781743328491
AV  - HD9773 .M334 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Sydney NSW
PB  - Sydney University Press
KW  - Furniture industry and trade
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Furniture making
KW  - Chinese
KW  - Cabinetmakers
KW  - Furniture workers
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 2; b
N2  - Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australia's past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in the post-gold rush era, becoming an important economic activity for Chinese immigrants and their descendants and a vital part of Australia's furniture industry. Yet, owing to an exclusionary vision for Australia as a bastion of 'white' industry and labour, these factories were targeted by anti-Chinese political campaigns and legislative restrictions. Guided by Chinese manufacturers' and workers' own reflections and records, this book examines how these factories operated under the exclusionary vision of White Australia; Historian Peter Gibson uses previously untapped archival sources to investigate the local and international factors that boosted the industry, and the business and labour practices associated with factory operation. He explores the strategies employed in efforts to resist injustice, and the place of Chinese furniture factories within the contexts of Australian enterprise, work and consumerism more broadly. Made in Chinatown argues that Chinese Australian furniture manufacturers and their employees were far more adaptable, and the White Australia vision less pervasive, than most histories would suggest. - Publisher's description
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