LEADER 04363nam 2200745 450 001 9910806851703321 005 20230126220251.0 010 $a0-252-09755-6 035 $a(CKB)3790000000033359 035 $a(EBL)4306028 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001558167 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16183784 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001558167 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14738506 035 $a(PQKB)10220984 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4306028 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001639688 035 $a(OCoLC)921220139 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47746 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4306028 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11137393 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL829793 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000033359 100 $a20160119h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChinese in the woods $elogging and lumbering in the American West /$fSue Fawn Chung 210 1$aUrbana, [Illinois] :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 1 $aAsian American Experience 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-252-03944-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEarly contact and migration -- Work and workers -- Carson City and Truckee : anti-Chinese activities -- Of wood and mines -- Of wood and trains. 330 2 $a"Building on her path-breaking work on Chinese in mining areas of the American West, Sue Fawn Chung takes up the topic of Chinese in the nineteenth century lumber industry in this new book. Chinese immigrants were key participants in logging and lumbering, in some cases constituting as much as 90 percent of the lumbering workforce. Chung sets out the background of interest in logging in China and examines the Chinese and American labor contractors, the community organizations and networks that supported them, and some of the reasons Chinese were attracted to logging in the west. She explicates their work, lifestyle, and wages, the lumber companies that employed them, their relationship with other ethnic groups, and the reasons for their departure from this occupation, including tightening immigration restrictions. Among other findings, Chung shows that Chinese performed most of the tasks that Euro-American lumbermen did, that their salaries for the same type of work in some places were not necessarily lower than the prevailing wage for non-Asian workers and in some cases even higher, that although some were separated in their work from other ethnic groups, some developed close relationships with their fellow workers and employers, and that Chinese camp cooks were valued and paid equal or better wages than their Euro-American counterparts. When they were treated unfairly, Chinese often brought their cases before the American courts and through the legal system won the right to buy and sell timberland and to obtain equal wages in logging. Based on exhaustive archival work, this project will expand understandings of the Chinese in the West and in working class history"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aAsian American experience. 606 $aForeign workers, Chinese$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLoggers$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLumbermen$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChinese$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aImmigrants$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWorking class$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLumber trade$xSocial aspects$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xEconomic conditions$y19th century 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aForeign workers, Chinese$xHistory 615 0$aLoggers$xHistory 615 0$aLumbermen$xHistory 615 0$aChinese$xHistory 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xHistory 615 0$aLumber trade$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a331.6/251097809034 700 $aChung$b Sue Fawn$f1944-$01612316 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806851703321 996 $aChinese in the woods$93941036 997 $aUNINA