Sentences with phrase «chinese laborers»

The Nanjing Particles, published for an exhibition at MASS MoCA, is a unique object that takes as its departure a historical stereograph of Chinese laborers brought to Massachusetts in 1870 to break a strike.

In a parallel gallery, NoNoseKnows (AP)(2015), punctuates the space with a video and sculptural installation that combines fact and fiction, documenting a group of Chinese laborers who harvest pearls from oysters in ZhuJi, China, empty high rises near Shanghai, and a fictional set built in the artist's studio in New York.

IN A PARALLEL GALLERY, NONOSEKNOWS (ARTIST VARIANT)(2015), PUNCTUATES THE SPACE WITH A VIDEO AND SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION THAT COMBINES FACT AND FICTION, DOCUMENTING A GROUP OF CHINESE LABORERS WHO HARVEST PEARLS FROM OYSTERS IN ZHUJI, CHINA, EMPTY HIGH RISES NEAR SHANGHAI, AND A FICTIONAL SET BUILT IN THE ARTIST STUDIO IN NEW YORK.

The history of the Del Dotto Winery and Caves dates back to 1885 when Chinese laborers dug a 350 foot wine cave, using only picks and shovels.

Resentment and violence against Chinese laborers was not isolated to the Wyoming Territory but occurred in several locations, including Washington State, Montana and Oregon.

When the miners went on strike, UP responded by practicing a kind of reverse outsourcing, replacing striking laborers with recently immigrated Chinese laborers who accepted the lower pay.

The law suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years; permitted only those Chinese in the United States as of November 17, 1880, to stay, travel abroad, and return; and banned the naturalization of Chinese immigrants.

Many Chinese laborers fled and were picked up by Union Pacific trains.

The Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Persons into the United States, referred to as the Geary Act, allowed Chinese laborers to travel to China and reenter the United States but its provisions were otherwise more restrictive than the 1885 law, requiring Chinese immigrants to register and secure a certificate as proof of their right to be in the United States.

But the working conditions of the Chinese laborers there test Aiden's ethical and moral strength.

The Chinese laborers married local women, became first small business owners and then prospered and became professionals.

I assume Brandt and Haas added the stuff where Logan Lerman (as Christian Bale's kid, who tails along while Bale takes prisoner Russell Crowe to catch a prison train) is horrified to see how Chinese laborers were treated.

Chinese laborers ate sauerkraut while building the Great Wall of China over 2,000 years ago.

Its introduction to the U.S. most likely occurred with the arrival of Chinese laborers who came to build the Transcontinental Railroad in the mid 1800s.

Sweatshops arose in Asia to glue soles to our sneakers; now digital sweatshops are populated by Chinese laborers who perform the computer tasks that those of us in wealthier nations don't have time to do.

Sonoma Seeks to Honor Chinese Laborers Who Shaped Wine Industry Immigrant Chinese laborers who planted some of California's first grapevines are getting the public acknowledgment that eluded them during the 19th century, when their backbreaking efforts helped establish the Sonoma Valley wine industry...

Terms of the deals include the use of Chinese laborers to feed China's massive construction industry.

Reports of local bureaucrats deliberately obstructing and inconveniencing Chinese laborers» visa issuances and border entry are still recalled.

Not a good sign for those looking at a hard ¥ 7,000 cap, approximately the average monthly wage of a Chinese laborer.

Not exact matches

A Chinese contractor walks past Kenyan casual laborers at a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya.

The only city folk who don't own housing are the millions of migrant laborers continuously flocking to Chinese cities.

Although the region was visited by traders from China for centuries, the first main Chinese influx came in 1820s, as immigrants worked as construction workers on the building of Singapore, and the second wave of laborers came in the 1840s to work the tin mines.

First settled in the mid-1600s by colonists from France, the island has depended on sugar cane and laborers imported from East Africa, Malays, Chinese, and Indians.

(2) The History of Chinese Railway Laborers.

The Railroad Station brought even more commerce, and attracted a population of Chinese, Japanese and Mexican laborers.