NO240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Immigration Restriction Act 1901, Cultural Assimilation, Hutterite
11 Apr 2016
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Lecture 4: immigration, labour and migration in north america. Gender, race and ethnicity in the early 20th century. Attracted people from northern europe and britain, but this wasn"t enough they got eastern and southern europe also asians- chinese and japanese. Rebel against non-white people coming to the usa 1882 chinese exclusion act. After gold minds, railways built with cheap chinese labour worked for small wages, and blown up/ crushed by rocks. Quotas of people of colour coming to the usa. Exporter of people, not importer of people (still to this day) Responsibility of mexicans to go out, find work and send money home. No middle class in mexican society very rich and very poor only. Labour unions began to address the poor working conditions became more political/ gained membership. Us and canada= waves of immigration from 1880s-1920s. Immigrants thought life was hard in america sweat shops, bad labour but still succeeding better than they had in the past.
