Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the United StatesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 544 páginas |
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¹ Reports Annual Report Austria-Hungary average number bituminous coal breadwinners Bureau of Labor Census cent coal mines comparative congestion decline decrease demand for labor Diagram displacement districts earnings Eastern Europe Eastern European economic effect emigration employees employment English-speaking fact factories farmers figures foreign German gration houses Ibid immi immigrant labor immigrants from Southern Immigration Commission increase Industrial Commission Ireland Irish iron and steel Italian Jenks and Lauck labor unions male manufactures Massachusetts ment mills miners native American native parentage native white number employed number of immigrants number of native occupations old immigration operatives Pennsylvania percentage of foreign-born period population races racial rate of wages ratio of unemployment recent immigrants rent Scandinavian immigration skilled mechanics Slav Southern and Eastern standard of living Sweden Table tenements tion total number trade trade-unionism unemployed unions United United Kingdom unskilled laborers workmen York City
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Página 76 - The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German. They begin of late to make all their bonds and other legal instruments in their own language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in our courts, where the German business so increases, that there is continued need of interpreters ; and I suppose in a few years they will also be necessary in the Assembly, to tell one half of our legislators what the other half say.
Página 76 - English; they import many Books from Germany; and of the six printing houses in the Province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English; They have one German News-paper, and one half German.
Página 219 - The American shrank from the industrial competition thus thrust upon him. He was unwilling himself to engage in the lowest kind of day labor with these new elements of the population ; he was even more unwilling to bring sons and daughters into the world to enter into that competition.
Página 107 - No part of the population of America is exclusively agricultural, excepting slaves and their employers who combine capital and labour in particular works. Free Americans, who cultivate the soil, follow many other occupations. Some portion of the furniture and tools which they use is commonly made by themselves. They frequently build their own houses, and carry to market, at whatever distance, the produce of their own industry. They are spinners and weavers; they make soap and candles, as well as,...
Página 63 - Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York.
Página 442 - State, to issue for the payment of labor, any order or other paper whatsoever, unless the same purports to be redeemable for its face value, In lawful money of the United States, bearing interest at...
Página 330 - We ask them because under the present conditions of trade instruction and employment in this country the American boy has no rights which organized labor is bound to respect. He is denied instruction as an apprentice, and if he be taught his trade in a trade school, he is refused admission to nearly all the trade-unions, and is boycotted if he attempts to work as a non-union man.
Página 76 - I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our elections, but now they come in droves and carry all before them, except in one or two counties.
Página 72 - Neither do the average or typical emigrants of to-day represent the lowest in the economic and social scale even among the classes from which they come, a circumstance attributable to both natural and artificial causes. In the first place, emigrating to a strange and distant country, although less of an undertaking than formerly, is still a serious and relatively difficult matter, requiring a degree of courage and resourcefulness not possessed by weaklings of any class.
Página 120 - commander" whose heart must be as black as his craft, who is paid a dollar a head for all he brings to the market, and more in proportion to the distance, if they bring them from such a distance that they cannot easily get back.