Hiring Workers
In early 1865, Central Pacific company had enough work for 4,000 men. Yet they could only keep track of 800 at a time, so the men had almost 5 times the work. The men in charge of hiring people started to have strong prejudice against both Chinese and Irish workers, but without them they would have a huge shortage of men. The Irish soon became angry at wages and they were quickly replaced by chinese men. Strobridge (the man in charge of hiring men) was afraid of the rumors he'd heard about chinese workers, but he had no other choice. He hired 50 Chinese men and was very impressed at their work ethic. More and more chinese men were getting hired and soon they were the majority of workers, they even got paid much less than the Irish and still worked harder. In one day they put down 10 miles of railroad. Soon enough all companies were hiring the chinese instead of the Irish and they were known for being great workers.
Source:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-cprr/
You had good choice of wording and you explained it very well. I think you got the message across well and you sound like you really understand whats going on. (:
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ReplyDeleteIf the Central Pacific Company had enough work for 5,000 men, what was the amount of work other railroad companies had at the time?
ReplyDeleteThats crazy how the chineese people worked more than the irish and still got paid less
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