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Made in Chinatown

- Australia's Chinese Furniture Factories, 1880-1930
Af: Peter Charles Gibson Engelsk Paperback

Made in Chinatown

- Australia's Chinese Furniture Factories, 1880-1930
Af: Peter Charles Gibson Engelsk Paperback
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Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australia’s past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in the post-goldrush era, becoming an important economic activity for Chinese immigrants and their descendants and a vital part of Australia’s furniture industry. Yet, owing to an exclusionary vision for Australia as a bastion of ‘white’ industry and labour, these factories were targeted by anti-Chinese political campaigns and legislative restrictions. Guided by Chinese manufacturers’ and workers’ own reflections and records, this book examines how these factories operated under the exclusionary vision of White Australia.

Historian Peter Gibson uses previously untapped archival sources to investigate the local and international factors that boosted the industry, and the business and labour practices associated with factory operation. He explores the strategies employed in efforts to resist injustice, and the place of Chinese furniture factories within the contexts of Australian enterprise, work and consumerism more broadly. Made in Chinatown argues that Chinese Australian furniture manufacturers and their employees were far more adaptable, and the White Australia vision less pervasive, than most histories would suggest.

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Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australia’s past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in the post-goldrush era, becoming an important economic activity for Chinese immigrants and their descendants and a vital part of Australia’s furniture industry. Yet, owing to an exclusionary vision for Australia as a bastion of ‘white’ industry and labour, these factories were targeted by anti-Chinese political campaigns and legislative restrictions. Guided by Chinese manufacturers’ and workers’ own reflections and records, this book examines how these factories operated under the exclusionary vision of White Australia.

Historian Peter Gibson uses previously untapped archival sources to investigate the local and international factors that boosted the industry, and the business and labour practices associated with factory operation. He explores the strategies employed in efforts to resist injustice, and the place of Chinese furniture factories within the contexts of Australian enterprise, work and consumerism more broadly. Made in Chinatown argues that Chinese Australian furniture manufacturers and their employees were far more adaptable, and the White Australia vision less pervasive, than most histories would suggest.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 230
ISBN-13: 9781743327852
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1743327854
Kategori: New South Wales
Udg. Dato: 1 apr 2022
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 210mm
Højde: 148mm
Forlag: Sydney University Press
Oplagsdato: 1 apr 2022
Forfatter(e): Peter Charles Gibson
Forfatter(e) Peter Charles Gibson

Kategori New South Wales

ISBN-13 9781743327852

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 230

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 210mm

Højde 148mm

Udg. Dato 1 apr 2022

Oplagsdato 1 apr 2022

Forlag Sydney University Press

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