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Explain the two major taken by the French to solve the problem of plague |
| Answer» Aa rat hunt was started in 1902.\tThe French hired Vietnamese workers and paid them for each rat they caught. Rats began to be caught in thousands.\tFor the Vietnamese the rat hunt seemed to provide an early lesson in the success of collective bargaining.\tThose who did the dirty work of entering sewers found that if they came together they could negotiate a higher bounty.\tThey also discovered innovative ways to profit from this situation.\tThe bounty was paid when a tail was given as proof that a rat had been killed.\tSo the rat-catchers took to just clipping the tails and releasing the rats, so that the process could be repeated, over and over again. | |