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Tables Show Chinese Labor Distribution and Wage Discrepancies in Late 19th Century San Francisco
This chart shows the numbers of Chinese immigrants employed in various occupations in San Francisco from 1860-1880. Although the data is incomplete, the chart shows that the vast majority of Chinese worked in menial jobs as laundry workers, [...]
Tags: Chinese Immigration
Item Type: Quantitative Data
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Table of the Asian/Pacific Islander Population as Percentage of Total U.S. Population, 1850-1990
Despite the near-hysterical rhetoric about an "invasion" of Chinese in California and other parts of the West in the late nineteenth century, the actual numbers of Chinese and other Asians remained a tiny fraction of the total population.
Tags: Chinese Immigration
Item Type: Quantitative Data