| North Adams strike | |||
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 "Chase's Chinamen"— Chinese workers | |||
| Date | 1870 | ||
| Location | 42°42′7.44″N 73°6′49.97″W / 42.7020667°N 73.1138806°W | ||
| Goals | Eight-hour day | ||
| Methods | Strikes, Protest, Demonstrations | ||
| Resulted in | Chinese immigrants brought in from California, replacing union workers for more competitive wages | ||
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Non-centralized leadership | |||
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The North Adams strike (also called North Adams Scandal) was a strike in 1870 by shoe workers of the Order of the Knights of St. Crispin, against Calvin T. Sampson's Shoe factory, in North Adams, Massachusetts. The strike itself was broken when the factory superintendent, George W. Chase, fired the Irish workers, replacing them with newly employed seventy-five Chinese men from California.[1] Bringing national attention to North Adams, the event started a nation-wide trend of bringing in scab labor and helped perpetuate the concept of immigrants coming to the United States to steal jobs, which led to much hostility towards Chinese immigrants across the nation.[2]
- ^ Brown, Elspeth (April 14, 2010). "Elspeth H. Brown. Review of "A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town" by Anthony W. Lee". Caa.reviews. doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.39. ISSN 1543-950X.
- ^ Eckman, Brennan. "Sampson Shoe Factory". Historic North Adams. Retrieved June 26, 2022.