Immigrant labor fills unskilled work while natives hold direction and skilled trades

Evidence

Those counted were people employed in nearly every low-end job and just about every middling occupation for Europeans in the Indies: former soldiers; railway and tramworkers, clerks in commercial offices and legal bureaus; supervisors and scribes on the agricultural estates; craftsmen; innkeepers; blacksmiths; waiters; watchmakers; photographers; barbers; tailors; bookbinders; storefront lawyers; shoemakers; coolie recruiters; roadside shopkeepers; and shop attendants—all jobs that were increasingly being filled by Javanese and Chinese women and men and that just twenty years later would be largely taken over by them. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 955 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features; Base economies offer locals mostly low-wage jobs while higher-skilled positions go to Americans; Indo Europeans occupied low-end jobs later filled by Javanese and Chinese workers — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 955 (+2 more)

Related

• Indo Europeans occupied low-end jobs later filled by Javanese and Chinese workers (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Base economies offer locals mostly low-wage jobs while higher-skilled positions go to Americans #exemplifies (0.85)
• Indo Europeans occupied low-end jobs later filled by Javanese and Chinese workers #exemplifies (0.80) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 955
• Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features #expands (0.78)