North Adams strike
The North Adams strike was a strike in 1870 by shoe workers of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Calvin T. Sampson's Shoe factory, in North Adams, Massachusetts. The strike itself was broken when the shoe factory superintendent, George W. Chase, employed seventy-five Chinese men from California.[1]
| North Adams strike | |||
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 "Chase's Chinamen"— Chinese workers | |||
| Date | 1870 | ||
| Location | 42°42′7.44″N 73°6′49.97″W | ||
| Goals | Eight-hour day | ||
| Methods | Strikes, Protest, Demonstrations | ||
| Resulted in | Chinese immigrants brought in from California, replacing union workers for more competitive wages | ||
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Legacy
The incident sparked widespread working-class protest across the country, shaped legislative debate in Congress, and helped make Chinese immigration a sustained national issue. Twelve years later, the United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring most Chinese immigrants from entering the country. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major anti-immigration law in American history.[2][3][4]
References
- Brown, Elspeth (2010-04-14). "Elspeth H. Brown. Review of "A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town" by Anthony W. Lee". caa.reviews. doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.39. ISSN 1543-950X.
- "On This Day..." Mass Moments. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- "A Study of the North Adams Labor Strike, 1870". Inquiry Unlimited. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- Gyory, Andrew. "A Shoemaker's Story". Picturing U.S. History. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
Sources
- Anthony W. Lee (2008). A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691133256.
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