LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Skilled Worker, Racialization, Chinese Immigration Act, 1923

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Bring more people in they settle they work they get income they buy. Skilled workers: coming with a pretty high level of confidence that they could find jobs. If you were a skilled worker in relatively good times in the economy it was a good thing. Transition often involved getting involved with the labour movement. Immigrants came from areas that had higher labour movement. However, a vast majority of immigrants were unskilled. Unskilled often carved out an area where they could get a little more comfortable. Asian immigration: never comprised of more than 4 percent, most years it was less than 2. Exploitation of the asians during the building of the railway. In jobs like mining, it was chinese workers who were sent to do the most dangerous work. Levels of injury and sever illness among chinese workers was extremely high. Because of that that adds another layer of hardship as well.