Labor Challenges Ahead
The Central Pacific faces significant hurdles as it struggles to retain workers amidst competition from the lucrative silver mining industry. With a call for thousands of laborers yielding only a fraction of the needed workforce, Charlie contemplates a bold solution: recruiting Chinese workers from Guangdong province, a region ravaged by conflict and famine. This decision could reshape the labor landscape of the railroad, but it also stirs controversy and resistance.In this clip
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85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike
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