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coolie

Unskilled indentured labourer of India and East Asia. Coolies were introduced into many parts of the world, especially the Caribbean, Africa, Fiji Islands, Malaya, and Ceylon, when labour was needed for plantations after the abolition of slavery in the 1840s. The system was gradually replaced by free immigration after the introduction of laws prohibiting their entry by many countries.



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While the Yorty-Bradley battles of 1969 and 1973 were characterized by much ``trash talk,'' the politics of trash separation surfaced in 1961 when Sam Yorty accused incumbent Mayor Norris Poulson of ``forcing Los Angeles housewives to perform coolie labor for a salvage firm.
PUBLIC FORUM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Democrats rejected the giveaway of public lands to the railroads instead of to homesteaders (1868); blacklists (1900); sweatshops and child labor, convict and coolie labor contracts ( 1892); the Taft-Hartley Act (1948); employment discrimination on grounds of age (1960); discrimination in federal or federally assisted housing ( 1960); and reverse discrimination through employment quotas (1964).
Loose planks in party platforms: history casts some light by Law, Ishmael / Commonweal
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