| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages). |
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text file EPUB 1.4MB |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
China and the West in the Modern World
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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-gold rush 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. - Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Furniture industry and trade -- Australia -- History.
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Furniture industry and trade. |
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Australia. |
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History. |
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Furniture making -- Australia -- History.
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Furniture making. |
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Chinese -- Australia -- History.
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Chinese. |
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Cabinetmakers -- Australia -- History.
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Cabinetmakers. |
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Furniture workers -- Australia -- History.
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Furniture workers. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gibson, Peter Charles. Made in Chinatown. Sydney : Sydney University Press, ©2022 9781743327852 |
| ISBN |
9781743328491 (electronic book) |
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1743328494 (electronic book) |
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1743328451 (electronic book) |
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9781743328453 (electronic book) |
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