... immigrants working class foreign workers worker radicalism business leaders American commercial growth “Capital and labor have no dividing here. Like the colors on a dove’s neck, they join and unite everywhere,” wrote former abolitionist and leading social commentator Wendell Phillips of American...

...This chapter examines forced labor communities, looking at encounters between Eastern Workers and non-Soviet foreign workers from the German wartime empire. The Germans treated Eastern Workers as a coherent group of racial inferiors but also promoted divisions between them. The meager rations...

... in foreign workers. In 2012, Japan became one of the most liberal states in its policies for granting permanent residency to highly skilled migrants. As a result, the population of foreigners has been rising for the past three decades and is likely to increase significantly in the near future. Why, then, do...

... that, ironically, stigmatizing immigrants as subversives contributed to the passage of the Quota Acts, which effectively stemmed the flow of wanted foreign workers. Post-war employers argued for preserving America's traditional open door, but the negativity that they had assigned to foreign workers contributed...

...This chapter presents a class-struggle perspective to the question of labor exploitation in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the figure of the foreign worker. Both liberal and neocolonial Western representations of the working-class migrant have been central to exceptionalizing discourses...

... American Mechanics Sons of the American Revolution YMCA Council of Jewish Women William Mckinley immigrants class-based radicalism employers foreign workers economic growth labor conflict immigration restriction alien workforces businesses On September 6, 1901, at the Pan American Exposition’s...