U.S. workers’ opposition to immigrant labor became particularly strong during the 1870s and 1880s ... the American Federation of Labor (AFL), advanced the binary between free and unfree ...

Only by taking an extended breather was America able to successfully assimilate the 25 million-plus newcomers who’d arrived after 1880. The pause in immigration led to a half-century-long ...

In 1921, Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Quota Acts, a conscious choice of the American public to halt the 1880-1920 “Great Wave” of eastern and southern European immigration (which ...

“ The Invention of Immigration Exceptionalism ,” published in November by Adam Cox in the Yale Law Journal, runs 117 pages. But its thesis is as succinct as it is profound: the prevailing view of ...

BEN WATTENBERG: Through the early 1800s, immigration to America had looked like this: primarily English, Scottish, German and Scandinavian. But between 1880 and the 1920s the flow changed.

In 1880, when a new wave of immigrants began to arrive in the United States, they moved to American cities, not to the countryside as immigrants had for 250 years. Immigrants took jobs in the new ...

Immigrants from Japan began entering the United States in the 1880s. They were largely farmers from southern ... In the aftermath of World War I, reactionary nativism became the dominant strain in ...

4, No. 2, Reworking Race and Labor (Winter 2011), pp. 269-283 (16 pages) This article explores what is sometimes called Black Nativism: African American antipathy to immigrants between 1870 and 1930.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...