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008			150302s2015 ilu ob s001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aHD8081 _b.C456 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aChung, Sue Fawn, _d1944- _e1
245	1	0	_aChinese in the woods : _blogging and lumbering in the American West / _cSue Fawn Chung.
260			_aUrbana ; _aChicago : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aThe Asian American Experience
520	2		_a"Building on her path-breaking work on Chinese in mining areas of the American West, Sue Fawn Chung takes up the topic of Chinese in the nineteenth century lumber industry in this new book. Chinese immigrants were key participants in logging and lumbering, in some cases constituting as much as 90 percent of the lumbering workforce. Chung sets out the background of interest in logging in China and examines the Chinese and American labor contractors, the community organizations and networks that supported them, and some of the reasons Chinese were attracted to logging in the west. She explicates their work, lifestyle, and wages, the lumber companies that employed them, their relationship with other ethnic groups, and the reasons for their departure from this occupation, including tightening immigration restrictions. Among other findings, Chung shows that Chinese performed most of the tasks that Euro-American lumbermen did, that their salaries for the same type of work in some places were not necessarily lower than the prevailing wage for non-Asian workers and in some cases even higher, that although some were separated in their work from other ethnic groups, some developed close relationships with their fellow workers and employers, and that Chinese camp cooks were valued and paid equal or better wages than their Euro-American counterparts. When they were treated unfairly, Chinese often brought their cases before the American courts and through the legal system won the right to buy and sell timberland and to obtain equal wages in logging. Based on exhaustive archival work, this project will expand understandings of the Chinese in the West and in working class history"--Provided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aEarly contact and migration -- _tWork and workers -- _tCarson City and Truckee : anti-Chinese activities -- _tOf wood and mines -- _tOf wood and trains.
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650		0	_aForeign workers, Chinese _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLoggers _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLumbermen _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aChinese _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aImmigrants _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWorking class _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLumber trade _xSocial aspects _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1091843&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell