Pain argues that “a variety of food… and the atmosphere” contributed to the cause and prevention of Cholera (Pain). Although his prevention and etiology was not medically accurate, he provides a logical and scientific explanation contrasting the average individual during the time. Furthermore, the letters address many casualties that resulted from the cholera outbreaks and those, of whom which “perish within a few hours… within the onset of symptoms” (Pain). People started searching for the origin, or etiology, of the illness and a mass wave of immigration was under review. “Between 1830 and 1850, the foreign-born population of New York grew from [nine percent to forty-six percent]” moreover, increasing the working class (Andrew).
INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN THE HISTORY OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY Michelle Gilruth The Social Issue of Unions There are many social issues that have affected manufacturing over the years. Many of these issues led to the formation of unions. Before unions, unskilled workers did not fair well. They received half the pay of skilled workers like craftsmen, artisans, and mechanics. Many people moved to cities to work in industry and about 40 percent of those workers were low-wage earners.1 As industry grew, women, children, and poor immigrants found themselves the main targets for work in factories.
Those that did not follow the Swift model were destined to remain small local companies. Thus by the middle of the 1890s, the meat-packing industry, with the rapid growth of these great vertically integrated firms had become oligopolistic (the “Big Five” had the major share of the market) and bureaucratic; each of the five had its many departments and several levels of management. This story has parallels in other industries processing agricultural products. In tobacco, James B. Duke was the first to appreciate the growing market for the cigarette, a new product which was sold almost wholly in the cities. However, after he had applied machinery to the manufacture of cigarettes, production soon outran supply.
One major cause of the growing strain between traditional and modern ideologies was the growing gap between socioeconomic classes. Many groups, like the farmers and urban workers, were left out of the middle-class prosperity of the decade. Other groups were culturally excluded. The 1920 census was the first in which more people lived in the cities than on farms. These people insisted on reforms that they felt would return them to “normalcy”, like immigration restrictions and prohibition.
Illegal immigration threatens the quality of life in the United States. First, employment is one issue facing Americans. Tens of thousands of jobs end up being filled by illegal immigrants, especially in the areas of construction, landscaping, hospitality and restaurant work.
The Heart of the Irish Immigrant Barb Keil ETH/125 Axia College of University of Phoenix Once on American shores the next journey begins. Some Irish Immigrants docked in Boston and some in New York where most would continue to live because they had no money to travel any further. Because of the vast amount of immigrants arriving at the same time, housing was in great demand as was jobs. Housing wasn’t much better on land than the ships they arrived in. The Irish were segregated and were forced to move to small areas called shanties or slums.
General Motor's decision to close 11 factories allowed the corporation to gain more money but put thousands out of work, devastating the workers and the towns they lived in. The corporations should think of how their decisions affect people. Although this move may provide Americans with cheaper jobs, it has added thousands more to the already high unemployment. After watching the movie "Roger and Me," directed by Michael More, one would notice the changes in the town of Flint after the closing of the factory. While senior management is getting raises and expanding their corporation, people are living in misery because of the lay-offs; this could change if the corporations gave those unemployed some compensation.
How the Other Half Lives Amanda Miller In How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis describes life in America as a division of classes. He makes it clear that the way you shall live your life in America depends largely on what class you belong to. He vividly describes his journeys through New York City’s tenement housing districts and tells stories of families that at the end of the Nineteenth century many Americans didn’t know could exist, much less the middle and upper class families living in the same city. The gap between the middle and lower class at this time was huge and in this book he shows it very clearly. The majority of the families that lived in the tenement houses were immigrants who had come to America to escape the lives of their home countries.
Out of work and with few local options, many tradesmen and their families emigrated to Newfoundland and Labrador. Similar socio-economic conditions existed in Ireland. The collapse of the textile industry in the southeast and a series of poor farming seasons between 1770 and 1830 resulted in much economic hardship for members of the working class. The country's population jumped from about four million to seven million, placing even greater pressures on Ireland's limited jobs and resources. During the first three decades of the 19th century, between 30,000 and 35,000 people left Ireland for Newfoundland and Labrador, often to escape hunger, poverty, and overcrowded living conditions.
These "new" immigants were largely from Italy, Russia, and Ireland. ... during the early 1800s were crowded and filthy. Immigrants new to the U.S. tended to overpopulate a certain area: “Italians in America clustered into groups related to their place of origin” (“Immigration: The Italians“). For example, Neapolitans and Sicilians settled in different parts of New York, and even people from different parts of Sicily settled on different streets. Italians would take over neighborhoods or streets and override other cultures, such as the Germans or the Irish.