Posts Tagged labor
October 30: Immigration, Labor, and Urban Life
Posted by msouther in assignments on October 22nd, 2009
In class we’ll examine the rise of immigration, especially German and Irish, in the early to mid 19th century, as well as the rise of the labor union movement and some aspects of urban life in growing American cities.
For today’s blog comment:
Examine documents linked below. Comment on what you think were the main arguments of nativist doctrine (the idea that immigrants were inferior to native-born Americans) in the first two documents below and the ways in which nativists depicted Irish immigrants in the three cartoons that follow.
Know-Nothing Platform 1856: http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/974.htm
Nativist Reaction: http://www.hsp.org/files/anticatholicpress.pdf
“The Day We Celebrate” Cartoon: http://www.haverford.edu/engl/faculty/Sherman/Irish/stpat’s.jpg
Harper’s “Black and White” Cartoon: http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/omalley/120/alien/harpers.jpg
“Uncle Sam’s Lodging-House” Cartoon: http://www.hsp.org/files/unclesamslodginghousecover2.jpg
October 23: The Emergence of Northern Industry (clarification)
Posted by msouther in assignments on October 12th, 2009
Read Henretta, Chapter 10 “The Economic Revolution.” Next, open and read each of the four primary sources at the bottom of the page in Comparative Labor Systems: Plantation Rules/Factory Rules. Apparently the URL doesn’t change when you navigate to the specific page, which is what caused the confusion. I just figured this out and apologize. To get to the actual page where the sources are located, click “9. Plantation/Factory Rules” in the left sidebar. Then, on the page that appears next, click “Student Activity Packet” in the middle. In a comment to this blog post, answer the first three questions that accompany the four texts.
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