New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781476662497
Subjects: Foreign workers; Immigrants, united states; Working class, united states; Labor movement, united states; Radicalism; Industries, united states, history; Social change; United states, economic policy; United states, ethnic relations
Description: "By 1914, millions of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe were doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and indoctrination of immigrant populations with labor movement ideology. In response, government and industry developed the 1924 National Origins Act, forever changing the American industrial society"--