Describe the 'Rat Hunt' activity introduced by the French in Vietnam.
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2. The French hired Vietnamese workers and paid them for each rat they caught. Rats began to be caught in thousands.
3. For the Vietnamese the rat hunt seemed to provide an early lesson in the success of collective bargaining.
4. Those who did the dirty work of entering sewers found that if they came together they could negotiate a higher reward
5. They also discovered innovative ways to profit from this situation.
6. The reward was paid when a tail was given as proof that a rat had been killed.
7. So the rat-catchers took to just clipping the tails and releasing the rats, so that the process could be repeated, over and over again.
8. Some people, in fact, began raising rats to earn a reward
1. a rat hunt was started in 1902.
2. The French hired Vietnamese workers and paid them for each rat they caught. Rats began to be caught in thousands.
3. For the Vietnamese the rat hunt seemed to provide an early lesson in the success of collective bargaining.
4. Those who did the dirty work of entering sewers found that if they came together they could negotiate a higher reward
5. They also discovered innovative ways to profit from this situation.
6. The reward was paid when a tail was given as proof that a rat had been killed.
7. So the rat-catchers took to just clipping the tails and releasing the rats, so that the process could be repeated, over and over again.
8. Some people, in fact, began raising rats to earn a reward
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