HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wall Street Crash Of 1929, Hongkong And Yaumati Ferry, American Chinese Cuisine
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Food processing, paper, match, bamboo goods production, knitting and weaving. These are not factories with very modern technology, they are smaller business and by large you can call them workshops. Transfer of capital and labor from china (1931:110000 workers in 754 factories) Overall cost of living increase but wages static. We have a significant imbalance of the income and the cost of living. These contributed to that, workers are taken advantage by the entrepreneurs. Revolution politicized some hk chinese: laborers, coolies. There are always these political ideas fused in those messages. Sporadic, small scale, brief - no significant economic impact. Not big enough to affect the entire colony of hk. Hk seaman strike, january 13 - march 6,1922 o. The duration and the size of the protest were larger in comparison. This particular incident will eventually spread to other industries. Participated by people later who at first were not affected by the strikers.
