Union Zindabad!
About This Book
On September 7th, 1907 thousands of white citizens rioted through Vancouver’s Chinatown, destroying homes and businesses. Windows were smashed, stores looted, and Chinese Canadians were beaten. After venting their fury on Chinatown, the crowd headed to Powell Street to attack Japanese citizens. Chinese and Japanese people were visible symbols of racial hatred, but the mob also had their eye on the rising tide of immigration from India. In March 1907, British Columbia passed a law to disenfranchi
| Category | health-sciences |
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| Subject | Sociology: work and labour, Canada, British Columbia, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Sociology: work and labour, Trade unions, Industrial relations and trade unions law, Diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace, Health and safety in the workplace, International Workers Day (Labour Day) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 15 |
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| Price | |
| Institution | University of the Fraser Valley |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- The Rocky Mountain community of Golden, BC is an example of a large community of
- Vancouver Portland Cement Company’s plant at Tod Inlet was an early — though sho
- The Vancouver Khalsa Diwan Society was founded in 1906 to support the expansion
- Until the mid-1950s, British Columbia homes were fueled by wood or coal.
- Labour contractors played a major role in the lives of newly arrived immigrants
- In 1913, on the eve of the First World War, the Ghadar movement was organized on
- Forty-eight year old Husain Rahim arrived in Vancouver in 1910 as a tourist and
- In 1918 in the wake of World War I, working class anger at eroding wages, unempl
- For many decades, the ‘Asiatic question’ was the most divisive and persistent ob
- “[This] delegation was organized by the Sikh Temple Society, also called Khalsa
- During World War II, with the desperate fight against fascism intensifying, work
- Dhan Kaur Johal, one of a handful of women who arrived in the 1920s, recounted h
- In the 1960s and 70s revised immigration laws allowed more South Asian women to
- If there was a single event that solidified in labour’s mind that right-wing ide
- In another groundbreaking organizational strategy, the Canadian Farmworkers’ Uni