AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transcontinental Railroad, Nanny, Land Run
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Men day laborers factories, mills, mines, boxing. Main employer in boston and ny are mills. Irish female will always get a job at a mill before a male will because we have idea that women do better at clothing than men. They work inside a wasps home as a servant. Wasps cant afford slaves (time period??) slavery outlawed. Chain migration all about sending money back. Good because they live inside the wasp house so they don"t have to pay for rent. Don"t have to pay for food, or clothes (you have a uniform) Better anchor immigrant is actually a female because mill, domestic work, or factory. Unique to irish: the irish send equal amounts of females as they do males. Means they can procreate and keep their irish culture. Most irish women are catholic, didn"t want to be prostitutes, but had to because couldn"t find a job elsewhere.
