Chris Friday: Organizing Asian American Labor

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Asian and Asian American workers resist oppression and shape their own lives<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566391399&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Organizing Asian American Labor</h1> <H2>The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942</H2> <h3>Chris Friday</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-139-3 $58.50, May 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-398-1 $28.95, Sep 95, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 296 pp 6x9 6 tables 6 halftones </P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Outstanding Book in History Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995</font></P> </H3> <BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Very thoroughly researched in traditional and non-traditional sources, well-organized, and gracefully written, the volume will be of particular value of readers interested in immigration, ethnicity, labor, and the American West." </I><br>&#151<b><I>Choice</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Between 1870 and 1942, successive generations of Asians and Asian Americans&#151predominantly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino&#151formed the predominant body of workers in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. <p>This study traces the shifts in the ethnic and gender composition of the cannery labor market from its origins through it decline and examines the workers' creation of work cultures and social communities. Resisting the label of cheap laborer, these Asian American workers established formal and informal codes of workplace behavior, negotiated with contractors and recruiters, and formed alliances to organize the workforce. <p>Whether he is discussing Japanese women workers' sharing of child-care responsibilities or the role of Filipino workers in establishing the Cannery and Field Workers Union, Chris Friday portrays Asian and Asian American workers as people who, while enduring oppressive restrictions, continually attempted to shape their own lives. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"An important book, addressing a major topic in ethnic, industrial, labor, and Western history with extraordinary rich coverage of the Chinese and Japanese and Filipinos in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry. The research can only be described as awesome, quite extraordinary....This is a book which carries historical riches of value not only within but beyond the boundaries of this specific topic."</I> <br>&#151<b>Robert Kelley</b>, University of California, Santa Barbara <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Maps and Illustrations <br>Acknowledgments <br>Introduction <br>1. The Spawning Grounds <br>2. "Satisfaction in Every Case": Cannery Work and the Contract System <br>3. Cannery Communities, Cannery Lives <br>4. Competitors for the Chinese <br>5. "Fecund Possibilities" for Issei and Nisei <br>6. From Factionalism to "One Filipino Race" <br>7. Indispensable Allies <br>8. A Fragile Alliance <br>Conclusion <br>Appendix <br>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><B>Chris Friday</B> is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ. </p><p>The "standard" written histories of Asian immigrants to the United States have been imbued with Western cultural biases. As a critique and corrective to earlier work, <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ, aims to develop a history of Asian Americans that is compatible with their own experience, that treats Asian Americans as agents of historical change and as creators of a new culture. In addition, this series intends to focus on the groups that are flourishing in the contemporary U.S.&#151Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese&#151about whom little has been written as well as to add to the substantial work done on the Chinese and Japanese in this country.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566391399&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2009 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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