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Cheng, Lucie and Edna Bonacich - Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II

Title: Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II
Description: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with black lettering; green dj with bw illustration and white lettering; xiv, 634 pp. Contents: Introduction : a theoretical orientation to international labor migration / Edna Bonacich and Lucie Cheng -- Some basic facts / Edna Bonacich -- U.S. capitalist development / Edna Bonacich -- Asian labor in the development of California and Hawaii / Edna Bonacich -- Race, ethnicity, and the sugar plantation system : Asian labor in Hawaii, 1850-1900 / John Liu -- Socioeconomic origins of emigration : Guangdong to California, 1850-1882 / June Mei -- The causes of emigration / Alan Moriyama -- The background of Korean emigration / Linda Pomerantz -- Colonial impact and Punjabi emigration to the United States / Sucheta Mazumdar -- The Philippines / Miriam Sharma -- Socioeconomic developments among the Chinese in San Francisco, 1848-1906 / June Mei -- Free, indentured, enslaved : Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century America / Lucie Cheng -- Japanese gardeners in southern California, 1900-1941 / Nobuya Tsuchida -- The dialectics of wage work : Japanese American women and domestic service, 1905-1940 / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- The social structure of Korean communities in California, 1903-1920 / Sun Bin Yim. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards, block, dj. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Keywords: American History ; Immigration History ; ; History - American

Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 184785

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