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Published: 01 October 2024
Figure 1. The manifesto of the Chinese Construction Workers’ Autonomous Federation, May 21, 1989. More
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (150): 33–52.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Figure 1. The manifesto of the Chinese Construction Workers’ Autonomous Federation, May 21, 1989. ...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 77–102.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Yunchuan represent the Chinese cultural workers who used their works to mobilize the masses to navigate the hostile natural environment and overcome technological insufficiency, portraying the body as corporeal machine. This mode of cultural representation went beyond revolutionary culture’s conventional...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 173–179.
Published: 01 October 2018
... with the precarious and disposable conditions of Chinese migrant construction workers. Meanwhile, within these enclosed and highly regulated spaces, the management also periodically uses outdoor film screenings to increase the morale of the workers as well as to prevent them from discussing their working conditions...
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Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (73): 185–195.
Published: 01 January 1999
... Labor, Caribbean Sugar: The Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. $45.00 (cloth). Aviva Chomsky, West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Xica, 1870-1940. Baton Rouge...
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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 6. Although rural migrant workers are often depicted as nameless and faceless in Chinese public discourse, they are also seen as a potential source of activism and unrest. Unsurprisingly, many construction companies use open-air cinema as a means to distract their workers, preventing them More
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 174–188.
Published: 01 October 1995
..., the analytical significance of the laundrymen’s story is strikingly similar to that of the plantation workers. Both books illustrate how intricate the labor history of Asians in America has been. Yu discovered that among New York’s Chinese hand laundrymen, class consciousness was not a clearly...
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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 4. On-site dormitories are common in Chinese construction sites. Construction companies want to ensure the minimal well-being of their workers to guarantee their productivity. The giant slogan on the background building reads: “The protection of the environment starts with me. For good More
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (93): 186–191.
Published: 01 October 2005
... the Knights of Labor in south- western Wyoming. Legal cover for these actions came from legislation that declared transcontinental railways military roads subject to federal protection. In Washington, too, mining companies used Chinese workers in an effort...
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Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 3. Chinese construction projects are generally massive. Sometimes, that means dozens of square kilometers of construction sites at the fringe of the city. For workers, this could lead to their de facto confinement for months. As a result, cell phones are the only way to obtain More
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2005
... and multidirectional narrative that situates local debates about so-called coolie labor in a broader, interactive discussion among managerial and bureaucratic agents of Anglo- American empire. They demonstrate that despite contradictions in this discourse, which either praised Chinese workers for their machinelike...
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Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (79): 157–168.
Published: 01 January 2001
... and violence. Forty- five died in a New Orleans race riot in 1866, one hundred in New York’s Hibernian riot of 1871; labor struggles that pitted the Workingmen’s Party of California against Chinese workers in San Francisco in 1877 led 4,000 armed civilian vigilantes...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 158–185.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Will , Yakashiro Nicole , and the LOI Research Collective . Settler Colonialism and Japanese Canadian History . Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective Working Paper 3. 2017 . Karuka Manu . “ Railroad Colonialism .” In Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 126–143.
Published: 01 October 2018
... that stratify and divide, recent scholarship argues that images can permit assertions of agency, identity, and opposition against sociopolitical, imperial, and corporate power. Anthony Lee reads Chinese workers’ portraits as vehicles through which migrants tested individual “distinctiveness” against...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 40–61.
Published: 01 January 2005
... and Jamaica—led most planters to fear that the worst was yet to come. “What chance,” wrote “C. D “has a sugar planter in the United States to make a fortune, or even a living, at sugar making now?”11 One solution was Chinese labor, and some planters attempted to bring Asian workers either from California...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (110): 9–35.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... Shanghai, located near the new national capital, had more industrial workers than any other Chinese city, and the health of Shanghai’s workers was of special con- cern to the government: worker health had a direct impact on industrial productiv- ity, and that productivity served as an index of China’s...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 111–136.
Published: 01 October 2023
... a distinctively socialist genealogy that began with workers and peasants being encouraged to write for newspapers in the 1920s Soviet Union, to improve both their literacy levels and political participation. 63 The Chinese Communist Party similarly invited workers and peasants to contribute to its newspaper...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 145–159.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., Hasegawa Teru was also a devoted Esperantist who wrote passionately in various Chinese periodicals against what she saw as the vicious and ultimately self-destructive policies of her home government and its military leadership during the late 1930s and early 1940s. This essay introduces and briefly...
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Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 105–112.
Published: 01 January 1996
... recent immigrant women, such as the Chinese in New York and the Mexicans in Southern California, experience with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union changed expecta- tions for what were appropriate family and community roles. The stereotype of women isolated in the domestic sphere...
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Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 102–111.
Published: 01 October 2004
...—the last shall be first, and so on. Within U.S. borders, the heroes of the post-1968 New Left included SNCC, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the Black Panther Party, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the Young Lords Party, the American Indian...