Question

Write a short note on rat hunt?

Answer 1

• The French  hired Vietnamese workers and paid them for each rat they caught.

• Rats began to be caught in thousands: on 30 May, for instance, 20,000

        were caught but still there seemed to be no end.

• For the Vietnamese  the rat hunt seemed to provide an early lesson in the success of collective bargaining.
• Those who did the dirty work of entering  sewers found that if they came together they could negotiate a higher  bounty.
• They also discovered innovative ways to profit from this  situation.
• The bounty was paid when a tail was given as proof that  a rat had been killed.
• 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.
• Some people, in fact, began raising rats to  earn a bounty.