Chinese Laundries: Tickets To Survival On Gold Mountain - Couverture souple

Jung, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1430329793 ISBN 13 : 9781430329794

Editeur : Lulu.com, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Jung John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Macon, Georgia, where his immigrant parents from China, the only Chinese in the city, owned a laundry. After moving to California, he majored in psychology at U. C. Berkeley and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Author of several academic textbooks, including a second edition in 2010 of "Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Behavior," he was a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach for 40 years. Upon retiring, he created a new career in writing 4 books on the history of Chinese immigrants and their family-run businesses and making presentations about them all over the country to pay tribute to these pioneers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Lulu.com
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1430329793
• ISBN 13: 9781430329794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258