Made in Chinatown : Chinese Australian Furniture Factories, 1880-1930 /
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 fur...
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Sydney NSW :
Sydney University Press,
[2022]
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| Շարք: | China and the West in the Modern World Ser.
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Բովանդակություն:
- Intro
- Half title
- Title
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chinese Language
- Introduction
- Previous histories
- Historical evidence
- Book outline
- Industry Beginnings
- Early woodwork experts
- Gold seekers to furniture makers
- Post-rush specialists
- Conclusion
- Setting Up Shop
- Proprietorship
- Raising finance
- Factory premises
- Tools and machinery
- Manufacturing materials
- Conclusion
- Workers
- Factory workforces
- Worker skill
- Rates of pay and hours of work
- Social class
- Conclusion
- In the Marketplace
- Furniture sales
- Promotions
- Profit margins
- Conclusion
- Restriction and Resistance
- Labour agitation and the first laws, 1860-89
- Official inquiries and the new laws, 1890-1900
- Furniture for 'White Australia', 1901-20
- Opportunism and the final legislation, 1921-30
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.