Chinese America: History and Perspectives articles

Recent articles from Chinese America: History and Perspectives

Introduction.
January 1, 2008... The long history of Chinese immigrant and Chinese American workers organizing in guilds and labor unions--in California, from the Gold Rush to the building of the transcontinental railroad and onwards--has been obscured in the decades following the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of...

Guilds, unions, and garment factories: notes on Chinese in the apparel industry.(Industry overview)
January 1, 2008... This volume of Chinese America: History & Perspectives includes several essays on Chinese labor guilds, labor unions, and the apparel industry. The following write-up is intended to provide relevant background information to better help the reader understand how each essay is related to a...

Scenes from the garment industry, late 1800s-early 1900s: beyond San Francisco.(Era overview)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Although their numbers were smaller than in San Francisco, Chinese also worked in the garment industry in other California cities such as Los Angeles and Sacramento. Some garment workers, like Fong See, labored in the industry only for a limited period of time. As a new immigrant, Fong...

Chinese labor unions in America.
January 1, 2008... Chinese traditionist organizations were formed based on having one of the following criteria in common: locality of origin, clan identity, fraternal bonds, or common economic interests. The last included organizations formed by merchants, small entrepreneurs, professionals, and craftsmen and...

Chinese guilds in the apparel industry of San Francisco.
January 1, 2008... The following descriptions of guild organizations and operations in the San Francisco apparel industry was based primarily on (1) the author's interviews with 75-year-old Bing Lai during the months of March through June 1967; (2) interview of 69-year-old Park Hong Ng by Gilbert Woo, Victoria...