Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino formed the predominant body of workers in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. This study traces the shifts in the ethnic and gender composition of the cannery labor market from its origins through it decline and examines the workers' creation of work cultures and social communities. Resisting the label of cheap laborer, these Asian American workers established formal and informal codes of workplace behavior, negotiated with contractors and recruiters, and formed alliances to organize the workforce. Whether he is discussing Japanese women workers' sharing of child-care responsibilities or the role of Filipino workers in establishing the Cannery and Field Workers Union, Chris Friday portrays Asian and Asian American workers as people who, while enduring oppressive restrictions, continually attempted to shape their own lives. Chris Friday is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University.
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"Very thoroughly researched in traditional and non-traditional sources, well-organized, and gracefully written, the volume will be of particular value of readers interested in immigration, ethnicity, labor, and the American West."
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"An important book, addressing a major topic in ethnic, industrial, labor, and Western history with extraordinary rich coverage of the Chinese and Japanese and Filipinos in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. The research can only be described as awesome, quite extraordinary....This is a book which carries historical riches of value not only within but beyond the boundaries of this specific topic."
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Asian and Asian American workers resist oppression and shape their own lives
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cannery communities, indispensable allies, fecund possibilities, bunkhouse villages, cannery labor market, cannery employment, cannery hands, canning regions, cannery laborers, cannery owners, cannery jobs, cannery crews, cannery work, extra hires, cannery towns, cannery employees, canning line, canning season, labor recruitment, labor contracting, salmon canneries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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cannery communities, indispensable allies, fecund possibilities, bunkhouse villages, cannery labor market, cannery employment, cannery hands, canning regions, cannery laborers, cannery owners, cannery jobs, cannery crews, cannery work, extra hires, cannery towns, cannery employees, canning line, canning season, labor recruitment, labor contracting, salmon canneries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Columbia River, European American, United States, Puget Sound, Native American, Cannery Lives, British Columbia, World War, The Dalles, Pacific Northwest, Every Case, One Filipino Race, New Westminster, Fragile Alliance, George Hume, University of Washington, Sacramento River, China Jim, American West, Robert Hume, Pacific Coast, Fraser River, Bay Area, Ponce Torres Browse Sample Pages:
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