Immigration and LaborG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 - 544 páginas |
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¹ Reports American wage-earners Americans of native Austria-Hungary average number breadwinners Bureau of Labor Census cent century child labor comparative conclusion decade decrease demand for labor displacement earnings Eastern Europe Eastern European economic emigration employees employment English-speaking fact factories farmers foreign German gration hours of labor houses Ibid immi immigrant labor immigrants from Southern Immigration Commission increase Industrial Commission Ireland Irish Irish Land League iron and steel Italian Jenks and Lauck labor market labor organizations labor unions Lithuanians manufacturing Massachusetts ment mines native American native parentage native white number of immigrants number of native occupations old immigration operatives period population proportion races rates of wages ratio recent immigrants reduced Scandinavian immigration skilled mechanics Slav social South Southern and Eastern standard of living strike Table tion total number trade trade-unionism unem unemployed unemployment unions United unskilled laborers whereas workers workmen York City
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Página 26 - In short, unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will, in my opinion, be not able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.
Página 26 - 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 26 - 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 25 - Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, in the city of New York, read and accepted, Feb.
Página 269 - 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...
Página 33 - 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 111 - 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 184 - 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 26 - 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 26 - Those who come hither are generally the most stupid of their own nation, and, as ignorance is often attended with credulity when knavery would mislead it, and with suspicion when honesty would set it right; and...