Free Essays on Migrant Workers During The 1930S

  1. The Farm Wage Workers

    common designation is "agricultural worker," which includes all who labor on the land manually regardless of region, structure of enterprise, or status. Early in colonial America, distinctive patterns among agricultural workers emerged. Landowners who wanted workers to help them paid the passage from...

  2. The Rabbit Story

    as well. As George and Lennie travel around they tell each other their dream as a way of coping with the loneliness of being migrant workers in America in the 1930s. Unlike most men in their position, they have something to look forward to and something to share. At the beginning of the novel, it...

  3. Lanne

    The Great Migration movement was 1.3 million African Americans out of the southern United States to the north, Midwest and west from 1915 to the 1930s. African Americans migrated to get away from racism, to seek job opportunities, and so their children can get a better education, all of which were...

  4. Unfair and Wrong

    family…let’s finally allow our unions to do what they do best and lift up the middle-class in this country once more…we believe that if the majority of workers in a company want a union, they should get a union. We can do this. President Elected Barack Obama, he supports the average middle-class family...

  5. Classic of Movies in Movie History

    based of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Steinbeck written 1939. The movie is an accurate historical depiction of the experience of migrant workers during the Great Depression, when the vicious dust bowls destroyed wheat farms throoughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and the Dakotas...

  6. British Immigrants

    were refugees, and a few were wives and children of Canadian people. Jews faced tighter restrictions when they tried to enter Canada in the 1920s. During the Battle of Britain in the 1940s, Luftwaffe - the German air force - started bombing British cities, including London. This bombing campaign was...

  7. Modern Brazil

    solely on the production of primary products such as Brazilwood, sugarcane, and coffee. The 1930s in Brazil was a period of consistent political and economic changes that started with the revolution in 1930 that abolished the Old Republic. Developmentalism was the key for these political and economic...

  8. Ap Us History Chapters 34 and 35

    (1933) – Create jobs on gov’t projects increasing workers’ buying power & stimulate the economy Ex. Grand Coulee Dam on Columbia River in Washington state near Oregon border (p.788) Social Security Act (1935) – Provided pension for retired workers & their spouses & aided people w/disablities Glass-Steagall...

  9. Of Mice and Men #1

    Unfortunate Affairs Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is set on a ranch in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The book is about two migrant ranchers who dream of one day buying their own ranch, but keep getting in trouble which forces them to move from one job to another. There are two...

  10. How far do you agree with the view that America was a land of opportunity during the 1920s?"

    "How far do you agree with the view that America was a land of opportunity during the 1920s?" Explain your answer using sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and your own knowledge. (40 marks) The 1920s are widely known as the 'Boom Era', or the 'Roaring Twenties' and a "decade of lively economic...

  11. Asian Immigration

    pain and discrimination. An article that talks about what Asian immigrants experienced coming to this country is “Immigration and Livelihood, 1840s to 1930s” by Sucheng Chan. The article focuses on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Asian Indians immigrant groups that struggled coming to America. Their...

  12. May I Knw Wat Is .....

    St. Germain (1919), and the Treaty of Trianon (1920). U.S. trade policies—the Tariff acts of 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, and the Smooth Hawley Tariffs of 1930—raised barriers to trade. These events contributed to the implosion of globalization for more than forty years. Toward the end of World War II...

  13. The Huguenot Exodus from France

    from which the kingdom did not fully recover for years. [edit] Antisemitism in pre-WWII Europe Antisemitic feelings and laws in Europe through the 1930's and 1940's, culminating in the holocaust, caused the emigration of many scientists to the United States. Notable examples are: Albert Einstein...

  14. Womens Wrights

    across the nation. For example; in the 1840’s the boot and shoe industry was ran by skilled independent workers who made custom boots in small shops. Foreign German, English and Irish shoe and boot workers set up trades with each other to help expand their business. There bonds grew close towards one another...

  15. The Irony of Dreams and Loneliness

    by all of the characters in varying degrees. Steinbeck makes it apparent that this solitude is a direct result of the cruel life led by ranch workers in the 1930’s, and each character does what is necessary to combat the pain of loneliness that plagues them. Bloom notes, “the book is full of loneliness...

  16. William Blake

    Salinas, north California. The story is based in 1930s America just after the Wall Street Crash. It was a time of economic depression and many men became migrant workers as they moved west in search of work. Steinbeck’s novella depicts life on a ranch in the 1930s, which becomes a microcosm of society of the...

  17. How Migrants Impact in a Business Communication Practices.

    wants to working in developed nations. Due to the higher pay, higher exchange rate, better economic environment, it attracted skilled and unskilled migrants arrive in those developed country such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Between 1850 and 1914 about 55 million Europeans left home for the Americas...

  18. Of Imce and Men

    sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones." A small town in the Salinas Valley of California, sometime during the early 1930’s, during the middle of the summer, because it’s a hot day. 3. Characterization: Physical description and personality, mental insight and actions...

  19. Miss

    surviving―Pastor Casey led strikes, Tom's character changing fortunes are like life recording, we moved for the authenticity of which, the difficulties of life during the Great Depression shock. But if our vision is limited here, is the simplification of "The Grapes of Wrath", Steinbeck contempt. The work surface...

  20. nOTES ON 1920

    became individual and group endeavor 2. Baseball and boxing two sports where mass marketing advanced furthest 3. Movie going also popular pastime during 1920s 4. After flight across Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh became perhaps most famous and adored man in America 5. Machinery of celebrity culture key:...

  21. Mice and Men

    special way. The novella titled Of Mice And Men, by George Steinbeck, follows the life of two migrant workers as they travel down the state of California in the 1930’s. George, a smaller and smarter worker, and Lennie, a very large man with special needs. The two flee from Weed to seek a job in Soledad...

  22. Migrants

    Migrants have had a significant part in shaping Australia into the diverse multicultural country it is today. They bring their unique skills and cultural beliefs. But they still struggle to receive legal recognition and disadvantage. Before anyone can come into Australia, they must apply for a visa...

  23. The Unprotected Workers

    Workman uses the term “ unprotected workers” in our society as he tries to identify several reasons why people suffer mistreatment at workplace. He questions the B.C. government when it comes to protecting workers safety, job security, benefits, and labour code changes. Based on the BCFL report, working...

  24. Migrant Hostel and Billy Elliot Essay

    by one’s acceptance and understanding. This is recognised in ‘Migrant Hostel’, a poem by Peter Skrzynecki, ‘Billy Elliot’ a film by Stephen Daldry. ‘Migrant Hostel’, by Skrzynecki, is set after the Second World War, where European migrants were brought into Australia by the government intentionally to...

  25. Understanding Corporate Complicity: Extending the Notion Beyond Existing Laws

    convention in 1930 to end forced labour. UNOCAL was sued in the United States under the ATCA for participating in a joint venture with the government of Myanmar in which the Myanmar army had used forced labour to build a pipeline. UNOCAL settled the case of out court. Companies that use migrant labour directly...

  26. Australian History

    Australia - downfall of conservatives * Technological Advancement - impact of changes in transport - technology and industry - impact on workers - Development of Trade union movement - The Return Solders League (RSL) * Migration - empire migration scheme * The entertainment Industry - the...

  27. Agriculture

    process has an inbuilt screening system, which is picking up people from relatively higher economic and social strata. The decline in the share of migrants moving in search of employment and an increase in business and study-related mobility further confirms this proposition. In contrast, poverty-induced...

  28. The Dust Bowl

    the 1930 there were a string of dust storms, which caused many problems for agriculture. The dust bowl as it was called damaged American prairie land up until the 1940’s. It was caused by severe drought conditions along with decades of extensive farming without time for the land to recover. During the...

  29. weed

    states to prohibit the recreational use of marijuana were mainly economics and prejudice. For example during the Great Depression migrant workers from Mexico were no longer needed. Many of these workers smoked marijuana. So the these states thought that if they banned marijuana it would send the Mexicans...

  30. Mice and Men Revision

    to your understanding of Crooks? b) How does Steinbeck use the character of Crooks in the novel as a whole to convey ideas about America in the 1930s? Assessment criteria AO1: Respond to texts critically and imaginatively, select and evaluate textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations...

  31. Biography of John Steinbeck

    Le Morte d’Arthur. He was inspired because him and his sister Mary imagined them in Camelot. As you can tell John Steinbeck had a love for writing, during high school he would stay up all hours of the night so he could write. He wrote in his attic room in Salinas. He would write little stories and little...

  32. Monica

    tell about the New Deal? Helping Farmers How did the Second New Deal help farmers? Things were still tough for farmers in the mid 1930s. The first AAA had helped some farmers before it was struck down by the Supreme Court. Now Congress passed new laws to replace the first AAA. One...

  33. International Labor Migration

    developing countries. This paper aims at discussing trends, issues and impact of the international labor migration especially with the unskilled workers. It also highlights the connection between trade and migration of labor. Factors leading to migration have been associated with wage differences and...

  34. Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and Their Consequences as an Ethnic Group

    recruitment of Puerto Rican and Caribbean labor. With the Great Depression and the WWII, the labor unions try to restrict the entrance of Caribbean migrants that was the source of “cheap labor” taking the jobs from many unskilled Americans. Although with the creation of the “Jones Act of 1917” a congressional...

  35. Black Migration to Northern Towns

    district as always been crucial in the identity of the region been predominantly Protestant or Catholic. With the coming of the southern blacks during the post second war migrations. The region began the process of change that affects how we look at Roxbury and the other regions of South Boston...

  36. For What Reasons Did Countries of the ‘5t Enlargement’ Want to Join the European Union?.

    Union. The European council of Madrid in 1995 decides that countries candidates also have to adapt their administrative system to those of the EU. During the negotiations of accession and a new European council of Madrid in 1995, all the new Member states have of to adopt the whole rule, administrative...

  37. Immigrantion and Industrialization

    and higher generation. The addition of the 3rd generation to the 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in 1920 shows that almost 7 of 10 manufacturing workers were of recent immigrant stock. The long resident native born white population was overrepresented in agriculture, good jobs in the public and business...

  38. The Best of Life

    farms. Around 400,000 farmers migrated, or moved, and became migrant workers. Migrant workers moved from place to place harvesting their crops like fruits and vegetables. Many people came from Oklahoma and were given the name “Oakies.” During the Dust Bowl, farmers used new technology such as disc plows...

  39. The Global Economic Restructuring

    the original impetus of individuals to migrate. Linkages between receiving and sending countries are readily established. Networks connect migrants and non-migrants, where news and information are shared.This sustains the flow of migration. Studying networks particularly those linked with families and...

  40. Thematic Analysis on the Grapes of Wrath

    Man had to suffer through many things during the great depression. Not only just through conflicts of finding where to live or what to, but also having to face the lack of compassion of man. Don’t get me wrong the great depression not only brought out the bad in man, but the good as well. John Steinbeck...

  41. California 1930's Entertainment

    Entertainment in the 1930s Have you ever thought about what entertainment was like in the 1930s compared to now? The 1930s have been referred to as the great depression; this is a nickname for the 1930s because of the major economic crises that happened during this time period. This sent millions...

  42. Documentary Photography

    and Dorothea Lange. Their works, Tomoko in Her Bath and Migrant Mother are two beautiful images that display the intimacy and pain of a mother and her children in two different ways. W. Eugene Smith was a photojournalist famous for his work during WWII and various photo essays in popular magazines like...

  43. Fical Policy

    Economic and Social Implications of Emigration, May 1991 • Barrett,A., and F. Trace (1998) “Who is coming back? The educational profile of returning migrants in the 1990s”, Irish Banking Review, Summer DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES Data Sources • Statistical Sources: – Census of Population, 1981,1986,1991...

  44. 1930's essay

    Language Arts 2 Period 6 2 march 2014 Sports In The 1930’s The 1930’s witnessed a worldwide financial depression, which affected the lives of many citizens in the United States. In the Depression, sports provided a way for athletes to be successful and a major distraction at large. Many baseball...

  45. From Black Ghetto to Bronzevilleresidential and Social in Chicago, Illinois

    Origin and Migration The first large group of blacks to migrate to the city were bondsmen escaping slavery in “Americas cotton kingdom in the south during the nineteenth century.” Hundreds poured into the city and while their presence in the growing city of European immigrants and native born whites did...

  46. In Dubious Battle

    for The American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel. This communist party are organizing a major strike by the workers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. The writer's sympathies were clearly with the strikers. He pictured them as exploited both by the...

  47. Of Mice and Men Crooks Analysis

    animals and this job helps make Crooks less lonely as he is discriminated among the other ranch workers because of his skin colour and ethnic. This would also represent Crook’s status in 1930’s America during the Great Depression. The discriminating white men would disregard and ignore Crooks and thing...

  48. Life During Great Depression

    Life during the Great Depression Interviewed Walter Kaufman Walter was born in 1905 on the family farm 11 miles southeast of Freeman. During the depression he was 25 and helping run the family farm because his father had suffered a stroke. Most of the farm work was done with horses, although...

  49. dust bowl

    temperatures made it that much more unbearable for the people who lived in the region when there was a drought involved. When the drought of the early 1930s struck the area, a phenomenon known as a dust storm began to become a more frequent event. When the first dust storms started to hit the area they...

  50. Labour Exploitation

    sounded too good to be true, it quiet was. The American/British/European workers who had jobs that paid pretty well in the scheme of things found that their employers could clear up the factories and move to a country where the workers weren't so well paid. A country where there are no tariffs, so goods...

  51. America the Undecided

    most of which were working as farmers. Before the 1930’s records were not kept well so there is little documentation of illegal migration in the United States. By 1930 a gross estimate of over one million Mexicans came to work and live in the U S. During the Great Depression many immigrants became the...

  52. In the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’, how does Steinbeck use Crooks to present attitudes towards black people at the time the novel was set?

    In ‘Of Mice and Men’ Steinbeck uses crooks’ character to represent and reflect how racist and prejudice people were towards black people during the 1930’s. Crooks is introduced into the novel as ‘the negro stable buck’ who has ‘a little shed’ for room next to the animals, this straight away suggests...

  53. The Great Depression

    The 1930's were a sad time for many. It is the time when the stock market crashed, banks closed, and millions were left penniless. To fully understand the events of the 1930's and the Great Depression, one must first understand the economic terms of that period, as well as the many acts and groups...

  54. China's Beggars in Society

    is achieved collectively and individualism is non-existent. People are assigned to work units through the state. China is a communist country, but during the labor market reforms of the 1980s the people are allowed more job choice, rather than stern job assignment. A person who chooses not to work still...

  55. History 240; Prompt

    Why it DIDN’T work in the 1930s When the United States entered World War I, key labor leaders promised not to interrupt the nation’s defense production with strikes Great Depression Brought a wave of unemployed workers to California in search of new jobs Grapes of Wrath, Joad family came to California...

  56. Hummanity

    2. How do conditions change for women at the end of the 19th century? (pp.562) New employment opportunities opened for teachers, nurses, office workers and salesclerks. Colleges and degree programs were developed to train women working conditions for women in factories were now regulated by laws. Women...

  57. Mom

    This book is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in two places. It starts beside a stream, close to the Salinas River, a few miles south of Soledad, California. It then moves to a ranch, where the major part of the story is set. At the end of the novel, the setting comes back to where it started...

  58. Of Mice and Men - Loneliness

    all they desire in this world, and George did exactly that in the novel "Of Mice and Men". In the novel, George Milton, is a migrant worker who travels from farm to work during the Depression. George cares for Lennie, his childhood friend, who is mentally disabled, since the death of Lennie's Aunt Clara...

  59. I don't have one

    Hbvenvbefvjhbekabvejfahv kadhjvbadljvhfbdojahbvoajdhbvfojadhfbodfhbdoafjhbvaodjhvbadf- oihvadroihvbadoihvbdaCelina & Jack English III Neff ~ 5th 3/18/2015 1930’s Scavenger Hunt (Work with a partner. Record answers on a sheet of paper.) Research the following questions – answer the question – and give the...

  60. Report on Community Organisatation Program

    : Importance of Education Objective : To Promote the Education among the kids of the Migrant Workers Location : RDT Transit School for Migrant Children, Egattur (Govt. Middle School Campus) Date : 20/10/10 Time : 3:00 PM Organised by : Social Work...