Title: Japanese immigrants » Immigration to the United States
Headings: Japanese immigrants
Japanese immigrants
Profile of Japanese immigrants
Life in Hawaii
Journey to the Mainland
Immigration from Japan, 1860-2008
Pressure Builds to Exclude Japanese
World War II and Japanese Immigrants
From the 1950’s Through the 1970’s
Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries
Jonathan L. Thorndike
Further Reading
scot phlander 0 answers 9 сентября 2019 05:03
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Content: They were especially keen on the possibility that they might eventually be able to buy the land themselves. The large and productive valleys of California presented unlimited possibilities. Japanese workers, like the Chinese before them, soon developed the reputation for accepting physically demanding work for low pay. They took to the fields and factories, working long hours and putting up with challenging conditions. Farmworkers who harvested produce were paid by the bushel of produce picked. Japanese workers proved that they could earn twice the pay of others because they were quick and efficient. They came from a small country with limited farm resources, so they were accustomed to getting the most produce from the lowest-quality farmland. In California, where the land was fertile and abundant, Japanese farmers could outproduce other farmers with techniques such as growing strawberries between rows of grapevines. They were also good at saving their earnings, so eventually farmworkers could combine their individual savings and buy land for the benefit of one another. Immigration from Japan, 1860-2008
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