Starch work by experts
Subtitle: Chinese laundries in Aotearoa New Zealand = Zhuan ye jiang xi : niu xi lan/chang bai yun zhi xiang de hua ren xi yi fang
By: Joanna Boileau
Publisher: Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780473457747; 9780473457730
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Chinese; History; Laundries; Social conditions
Other titles: Zhuan ye jiang xi
Description: "Chinese laundries first opened in the 1880s and were an interal part of New Zealand's social fabric until at least the 1950s. How did they develop in towns from Southland to the Far North before slowly disappearing after the 1940s? Who ran them and how did they fit into their communitites? Starch Work by Experts: Chinese Laundries in Aotearoa New Zealand tells the story of the laundrymen, their families and customers."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: preface; title: introduction; title: washday blues; title: Dunedin; title: Otago-Southland; title: West Coast; title: Christchurch; title: Canterbury; title: Nelson-Marlborough; title: Wellington; title: Wairarapa; title: Manawatū-Whanganui; title: Taranaki; title: Gisborne-Hawke's Bay; title: Auckland; title: Wakiato-King Country; title: Coromandel-Bay of Plenty; title: Northland; title: conclusion: laundry lives; title: endnotes; title: list of Chinese laundries; title: bibliography; title: index