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Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse - Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization (Hardcover)
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Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse - Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization (Hardcover)
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Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between
the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed
many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution
of industrial-era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements
nativism-a sociocultural negativity toward foreign-born
residents-as a reason for Americans' dislike and distrust of
immigrants. And in the era of American industrialization, employers
both relied on immigrants to meet their growing labor needs and
blamed them for the frequently violent workplace contentions of the
time. Through a sweeping narrative, Zeidel uncovers the connection
of immigrants to radical "isms" that gave rise to widespread
notions of alien subversives whose presence threatened America's
domestic tranquility and the well-being of its residents.
Employers, rather than looking at their own practices for causes of
workplace conflict, wontedly attributed strikes and other unrest to
aliens who either spread pernicious "foreign" doctrines or fell
victim to their siren messages. These characterizations transcended
nationality or ethnic group, applying at different times to all
foreign-born workers. Zeidel concludes that, ironically,
stigmatizing immigrants as subversives contributed to the passage
of the Quota Acts, which effectively stemmed the flow of wanted
foreign workers. Post-war employers argued for preserving America's
traditional open door, but the negativity that they had assigned to
foreign workers contributed to its closing.
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