Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada
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Faced with systematic discrimination in Canada, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century through the Second World War, a majority of Canada's Chinese immigrants were laundry workers in towns and cities from coast to coast. Although the hand laundry was not a traditional trade in China, laundry work required little capital, and could be performed despite a lack of familiarity...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0660190788
ISBN13:9780660190785
Release Date:June 1905
Publisher:Canadian Museum of History
Length:94 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 6.9" x 9.5"
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