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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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First, the large-scale transport of coolies to the Caribbean was larger than the migration of free Chinese to California, and Jung reveals a fascinating transnational discourse around coolie labor connecting the American South and the Caribbean.
context they were placed in compartments of the discipline separate from "labor history": history of slavery and of African Americans, history of coolie labor and Asian Americans, and history of Chicanos or Mexican Americans.
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.
 
 
 
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