Thomas Nast: "The Comet of Chinese Labour" (1870)The use of cheap foreign labour to undercut unionised American workers and benefit big business, is not new. But as this cartoon shows, it is easy, perhaps politic, to focus on the foreigner, who after all is merely trying to earn a living like the rest of us, and deserves decent treatment, out of common humanity.
"Pacific Chivalry" (August 7 1869)
How do we get a balance between the advantages of international trade, and the obligation of each State to look after its own people?
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