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Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada
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Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada Paperback - 2004

by Ban Seng Hoe


From the publisher

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 with Western languages and financial systems. The hours were long, the work was physically demanding, and most Chinese laundry workers lived a marginal existence--as poignantly evoked in this important new work.

Details

  • Title Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada
  • Author Ban Seng Hoe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 94
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
  • Date February 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780660190785 / 0660190788
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.86 x 0.22 in (24.13 x 17.42 x 0.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004396729
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.625