HIST 1011 Lecture 3: Global-Immigration-and-Labor-in-the-late-19th-Century
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Global immigration and labor in the late 19th century. Short distance: occurs in any industrializing society, workers move from rural areas to industrialized urban cities. Short-term: move to a place for work but not spend the rest of their lives there, short term of intense demand of labor, usually infrastructural projects canals, roads, rails, seasonal labor agriculture. Long-distance: transcontinental and long-term, development of improved methods of transportation, steam boat and rails, moving large number of people cheaper, drawing cheap labor from abroad, advances in communication and transportation. Idea that there is more money to be made elsewhere: a lot of countries have surplus workers because rate of increasing population faster than industrial development i. e. taiping rebellion in china, irish famine, anti-semitic persecution in russia. Italians went to argentina, germans went to brazil. Indian labor in caribbean, fiji, and neighboring places like malaya and burma.
