Remember Leland Stanford, who called Asian-Americans the "dregs" of "an inferior race" in his inaugural speech as California governor before it turned out that he would be absolutely dependent on their labor to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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"May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great Oceans of the world,” — the words etched into the Golden Spike, just four years after the Civil War had ended.pic.twitter.com/2XUj16Il7L
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No Chinese Americans here in the final photo, even though they were paid 30 to 50 percent less than their white colleagues and were given the hardest work. Chinese civic organizations retrieved 1,200 bodies along the route. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chang-transcontinental-railroad-anniversary-chinese-workers-20190510-story.html …pic.twitter.com/pOq3F7P1Fh
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Southern Pacific is the company that litigated parts of the Supreme Court precedent that corporations can be considered people under the 14th amendment, a Constitutional amendment created to elevate the rights of former African-American slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Co.#Significance …
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@clancynewyork@histoftech I mean... really this timing coincidence is just... wow.pic.twitter.com/LdoJFjhP9fShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Southern Pacific became the largest private landowner in California - The Octopus: A Story of California (The Epic of the Wheat) (v. 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140187707/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_4GD1Cb91A43HE …
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For a few years, Port Costa was the largest grain port in the world. It plays an important role in Norris’s classic book about monopoly power.
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Similarly to Stanford's railroad, though, Uber's IPO is built off of abusive labor practices and workers who are under-compensated relative to the value they've generated.
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I’d be shocked if Uber considered this.
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though smaller in size, about 2000 punjabis worked on the railroads
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