AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Guangdong, Taishan, Nuclear Family
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Labor unions way that employees get together and join a club. It"s a club based on collectivism if the factory isn"t doing a good job getting you enough pay, or not good enough conditions, you can do a strike when you refuse to work. At first, wasp labor unions don"t allow immigrants in. So, immigrant groups make their own labor union. How do irish move up the hierarchy: assimilation. Irish stop speaking in a lilt, get rid of their accent assimilation. They look white like wasps: voting blocks. Wasps need irish to support them to get elected. Wasps keep their power by adding people to the club: children if they go to public school they assimilate a lot, and also assimilate in general, other immigrants. Americans hate the people who are the most different. Unassimilateable immigrants come in and make the irish not look as bad. Second of the first wave groups: the chinese.
