THE INDISPENSABLE ENEMY:

LABOR AND THE ANTI-CHINESE MOVEMENT

I.       Introduction:  "The Chinese Must Go!"

A.  Coming to Gold Mountain
B.  "The Chinese Must Go!"
C.  Lecture Questions

II.      An Indispensable Labor Force

A.  The Mines
B.  The Railroads
        1.  "Crocker's Pets"
        2.  Chinese Railroad Workers
        3.  Chinese Resistance
C.  White Workers

III.       Economic Hard-times

A.  Good Times
B.  Depression
        1.  Completion of the Railroad
        2.  Employer-Labor Conflict
        3.  Scapegoating Chinese Labor

IV.       The Anti-Chinese Movement

A.  The Democratic Party
B.  Workingmen's Party
        1.  Labor Strife in San Francisco
        2.  Denis Kearney
        3.  Constitution of 1879
C.  Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
D.  A Bachelor Society

V.        Renewed Immigration

A.  The San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
B.  Angel Island
        1.   Life on the Island

V.        Conclusion:  The Indispensable Enemy