Chapters 3 and 4

In Chapter 3, “The Work They Do,” Foner focuses on immigrants as a whole in the workplace. In Chapter 4, “Immigrant Women and Work,” Foner focuses on immigrant women in the workplace. Both chapters focus on the workplace and how it has changed for immigrants. In Chapter 3 she talks about the differences in types of work that immigrants do, due to the changes in the types of immigrants (those with more educational background than before) that come into the United States. In Chapter 4 she talks about the differences in who is working – older women enter the workforce later, after having children, and stay in the workplace, rather than staying at home and sending young daughters to work. I found this interesting because when we went to the LES Tenement Museum, we discussed the daughters of the families going to work and how their parents would blame them if they were fired even though the conditions for firing were so strange.

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