Made in Chinatown - Australia's Chinese Furniture Factories, 1880-1930 (Paperback)

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-goldrush 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.

General

Imprint:	Sydney University Press
Country of origin:	Australia
Series:	China and the West in the Modern World
Release date:	April 2022
Authors:	Peter Charles Gibson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - A5: Tankobon
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-1-74332-785-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
LSN:	1-74332-785-4
Barcode:	9781743327852

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