Asian building of american railroads
History of Chinese Americans
The building of the railway required enormous labor in the American West, and many of the Chinese who had built.
The greater portion of the laborers employed by us are Chinese, who constitute a large Chinese worked on shorter railroad lines before construction of the.
Description:The rails, ties and other material were thrown off the train as near to end of the track was as feasible, and then the empty train was drawn back out of the way. Although the white European workers had higher wages and better working conditions, their share of the workforce was never more than 10 percent. California Gold Rush[ edit ] Chinese gold miners in California [38] The last major immigration wave started around the s. Many former fishermen found work in the salmon canneries , which until the s were major employers of Chinese migrants, because white workers were less interested in such hard, seasonal and relatively unrewarding work. In other large cities and regions in America similar associations were formed. Also Chinese farmers contributed to the development of the San Gabriel Valley of the Los Angeles area, followed by other Asian nationalities like the Japanese and Indians.
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