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Capital used Chinese laborers as a transnational industrial reserve army to weigh down white workers during periods of economic expansion and to hold white labor in check during periods of overproduction. Labor was a major cost of production, and employers saw how the importation of Chinese workers could boost the supply of labor and drive down the wages of both Chinese and white workers. The resulting racial...
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...antagonism generated between the two groups helped to ensure a divided working class and a dominant employer class.
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Luke, for your future interest, Chinese workers were also used (and abused) by the British government to clear up the rotting remains and barbed wire etc from the Western Front in France after the end of World War One.
Judith wrote: "Luke, for your future interest, Chinese workers were also used (and abused) by the British government to clear up the rotting remains and barbed wire etc from the Western Front in France after the ..."Thank you for that interesting sidenote, Judith.