WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Question
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Children often worked long hours
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Immigrants were often paid less than American workers
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Many jobs were dangerous & had few safety concerns
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Immigrants caused a shortage of jobs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Migrant workers lacked educational opportunities for their children, lived in poverty and terrible housing conditions, and faced discrimination and violence when they sought fair treatment. Attempts to organize workers into unions were violently suppressed.
Detailed explanation-2: -WORKING CONDITIONS OF MIGRANT GARMENT WORKERS IN INDIA is characterised by excessive overtime, low wages, poor access to social security provisions, verbal and sexual harassment and occurence of forced labour like conditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The language barrier is one of the main’s challenges immigrants face. When you don’t speak the language of the place in which you live, things like finding a job, buying food, and even meeting new people become incredibly difficult.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dozens of empirical studies have found that immigration benefits American workers. Even immigrant workers with little formal education have, with some exceptions, been found to have negligible effects on the wages of similarly educated workers.