TY - BOOK ID - 30952738 TI - Chinese in the woods PY - 2015 SN - 9780252097553 0252097556 0252039440 9780252039447 PB - Urbana DB - UniCat KW - E-books KW - Lumber trade KW - Working class KW - Immigrants KW - Chinese KW - Lumbermen KW - Loggers KW - Foreign workers, Chinese KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - West (U.S.) KW - Ethnic relations KW - Economic conditions KW - Lumber industry KW - Timber industry KW - Forest products industry KW - Lumbering KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Laboring class KW - Labouring class KW - Working classes KW - Social classes KW - Labor KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Ethnology KW - Buckers (Persons) KW - Fallers (Persons) KW - Lumberjacks KW - Timber buckers (Persons) KW - Timber fallers (Persons) KW - Alien labor, Chinese KW - Chinese foreign workers KW - Employment KW - American West KW - Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) KW - United States, Western KW - Western States (U.S.) KW - Western United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30952738 AB - "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. ER -