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Moy, Frank Kunyin.

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The political economy of Chinese labour in Canada, 1858-1923.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The political economy of Chinese labour in Canada, 1858-1923./
Author:	Moy, Frank Kunyin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1979,
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 33-06, page: 1711.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International33-06.
Subject:	Canadian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MM96676
ISBN:	9780315966765

The political economy of Chinese labour in Canada, 1858-1923.
Moy, Frank Kunyin.

The political economy of Chinese labour in Canada, 1858-1923. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1979 - 167 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 33-06, page: 1711.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University (Canada), 1979.

The significance of the early Chinese pioneer workers in Canada lay in their role as cheap unskilled reserve labour in the economic development of Canada. In British Columbia, this pool of reserve labour at the bottom of society provided a vital source of unskilled and semi-skilled labour needed for the development of resource industries and infrastructure of the province. The problems arising, from the control and utilization of this pool of cheap Chinese labour were the roots of the so-called "Chinese problem" which plaqued Canada, particularly western Canada, for well over half a century. The status of the Chinese as cheap labour was the underlying factor which precipitated all the anti-Chinese agitations and legislations. The pervasive anti-Chinese sentiment in Canada had the effect of keeping the early Chinese workers in Canada at the lowest stratum of the Canadian society. In those areas where they lived segregated from the rest of society, Chinatown emerged with a peculiar culture and a system of organizations geared to the survival needs of its members. However, the logic and the imperative of survival dictated that the Chinese workers had to move out of their assigned role as cheap reserve labour. Through self employment, some Chinese workers managed to be more self sustaining and less dependent upon the fluctuation the cheap labour market. But when more Chinese workers moved into self employed occupations and businesses competing with white skilled labour and trade, their presence was perceived as a threat. This induced all sectors of the white Canadian society to petition the federal government to legislate for their exclusion. The end result was the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which in effect was an act of total exclusion.

ISBN: 9780315966765Subjects--Topical Terms:

3174996
Canadian history.

The political economy of Chinese labour in Canada, 1858-1923.
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