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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 with Western languages and financial systems. The hours were long, the work was physically demanding, and most Chinese laundry workers lived a marginal existence." "With the advent of modern laundry equipment and synthetic fibres in the 1950s, and the ageing of the laundrymen themselves, the Chinese hand laundry came to an end. To generations of Chinese-Canadians, however, it remains a symbol of hard work, sacrifice and enduring hardship."--BOOK JACKET.
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Subjects
Chinese Canadians, History, Laundry workers, ChinesePlaces
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Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada (Mercury Series)
February 2004, Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadie
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Enduring hardship: the Chinese laundry in Canada
2003, Canadian Museum of Civilization
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0660190788 9780660190785
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