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Robert F. Zeidel, "Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization"
English | ISBN: 1501748319 | 2020 | 306 pages | EPUB | 822 KB
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.