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Immigration & Working Class Life in the American Industrial Age

Lectures in History

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The Immigrant Wave

Bartolleo: The thing is about the United States and the industrial system. Wages actually were higher in the United States than they were in Europe, he says. A huge portion of immigrants who came to the U.S. never planned on staying, Bartolleo writes. People would go back, work a few years, they'd go back, said Bartollei.

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