California Gold Rush | Gold Mountains | 5
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The Chinese Immigrants in the Gold Fields
In the off season they would do all kinds of other jobs They would work in cafes. They started Laundries they worked in fishing. They worked in cigar factories. So actually a lot of jobs that they would not have done at home things that might have been What you would call women's work? Sewing for example were things that they could do here in part because again it didn't require much capital to start a laundry.
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