HRM 3450 Study Guide - Glass Ceiling, Gender Pay Gap, White Ethnic
20 May 2014
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Bell (2012), chapter 7, identity group: whites/european americans. Experiences of discrimination women vs. men in this identity. European immigration to canada started with the colonization of the new land. At the beginning immigration was slow and only fishermen, farmers, merchants, slaves, etc. came to canada. After the 1880 europeans had left the old continent hoping to find better opportunities for themselves elsewhere. Canada were the fact that the us closed its borders, yukon gold rush, huge construction projects like the transnational railway, the opening of the. West, and new developments in farming technology all made canada more attractive. Most of the immigrants were from uk, poland, ukraine, romania, There were conflicts over work between many of the ethnic groups, such as. The english viewed the later european immigrants as dirty, immoral, unintelligent, and dishonest (quite similar to blacks). For example jewish, and other eastern europeans were seen as.
