Lecture 17: Immigrants in Industry

1. Overall Pattern of Immigrant Succession in Industry

2. Distribution of New Immigrants across Industries

3. Socialization of New Immigrants
   
   A. Cultural Training and Conflict
   B. Scientific Management
   

4. Workers' Daily Responses at the Workplace

5. The Labor Movement
   1. American Federation of Labor
   2. Knights of Labor
   3. Industrial Workers of the World
   4. Socialist Party

6. The Era of the Mass Strike
   1. Shirtwaist Strike, NYC, 1909-10
   2. Lawrence, MA 1912, "The Bread and Roses Strikes"
   3. Basic Lessons
      1. Importance of interethnic cooperation
      2. Importance of cross-class alliances beyond immigrants and working class

Lecture 18: Mexican Migration and the Southwest

1. Mexican-American Interaction: 19th Century
   1. American Annexation of Southwest
      1. Texan Independence
      2. Annexation of Texas and U.S.-Mexican War
      3. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848

   2. Conflict and Merging of Cultures
      1. California
      2. New Mexico
         
         
2. Internal Causes of Mexican Emigration
   1. Population increase
   2. Transformation of rural economy
   3. Internal migration within Mexico
   4. Impact of Mexican Revolution, 1910 and after

3. Pull factors from the American Side
   1. Transportation revolution
   2. Economic development in American Southwest
   3. Closing of gates to Chinese immigration
   4. Wage differential between U.S. and Mexico
   5. Role of labor agents

4. Scale of Migration

5. Influence of Closing of Gates to European Immigrants, 1924
   1. Increasing immigration
   2. Growth of community among Mexicans and Mexican Americans

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