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Worker Freedom with Alex Gourevitch

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The End of Jim Crow

Chinese exclusion was a sop that the northern ists through to the working class in order to keep the spigot of european labor open. The north doesn't have to worry about not having enough labor, because you have an endless supply. But even to the northeast, i mean, they thought they were kind of getting it. And it reinforced the ethnic identity, the ethnic unity the northeast, worse than class, caus they thought, o we can sill have these white europeans come. He basically becomes like the the like border patrol chief of his day. Yeteecomes theenow e's awful imean niits its an ignominious end.

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