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organizing immigrants  

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  • Immigrants have long formed the backbone of U.S. working classes: European immigrants labored in factories across the northern United States; Chinese immigrants built thousands of miles of railroad track and, along with Japanese and Filipinos, farmed in the west; Mexican nationals worked the agricultural fields of the southwest, and American-born descendants of slaves (sometimes called “forced immigrants”) cultivated cotton and other crops in the south. Despite these differences, all of these workers labored under difficult and often unsafe conditions for low wages, and all participated in collective efforts to improve their working situations. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Immigrants, Organizing]

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