Shopping at Giant Foods: Chinese American Supermarkets in Northern California (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series on Asian American Studies)
Автор:Alfred Yee Год: 2003 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0295983043 Book DescriptionFrom the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in Northern California, only to decline as union regulations and competition from national chains made their operation unprofitable. Alfred Yee?s study of this trajectory is an insider?s view of a fascinating era in Asian American immigration and entrepreneurship. Drawing on oral interviews with individuals who worked in the business during its peak and decline, he presents an accessible history that illustrates how this once-thriving business fostered the social and economic integration of Chinese Americans into life in the United States. Yee demonstrates how Chinese American supermarkets were able to sell American groceries at reduced prices by using the cheap labor of family members and Chinese immigrants...
