In the article An Army of Garment Worker, the author talks about Jew’s in America. When the Jewish people from Russia arrived in America they had great skills, mostly skills in making garments, tailoring and making other clothes, before the arrival of the Jewish people, however the German Jews were here before them and were dominating in the garment industry, together the Russian Jews and German Jews were making history in the garment industry. Everywhere people went in the Lower East in New york all they could see were people working on machine making garment: men and women were working. In 1914 some of the German and Russian Jews immigrants opened shops, which made up about 60% of the businesses and they only needed $50 dollars to open a
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A clear example of what I mean is the New Jim crow laws that Michelle Alexander talks about in Rethinking the color line where people of color are subjected to harsh treatment by the law enforcement where law enforcement can stop and search people of color while not stopping people who are not of color, The Jews were treated bad because they were immigrates who had none to stand up for them to change the working conditions just like we don’t have a lot of people standing up for people of color being mistreated and stop and searched for no apparent reason or being incarcerated at a higher rate than people who are Caucasian who commit the same crime as the people of color. Imagine if the tables were turned and the people who were working in the factories were citizens who were Caucasian and born in America, would they have accepted the harsh treatment the Jewish people received from the foreman along with the long hours and not being able to see your family every night because one is too tired to be with their families. The answer is no , they would demand change and better- working conditions , if that’s the case why can’t Caucasian fight for the right of people of color and demand change within the legal system and have everyone
A clear example of what I mean is the New Jim crow laws that Michelle Alexander talks about in Rethinking the color line where people of color are subjected to harsh treatment by the law enforcement where law enforcement can stop and search people of color while not stopping people who are not of color, The Jews were treated bad because they were immigrates who had none to stand up for them to change the working conditions just like we don’t have a lot of people standing up for people of color being mistreated and stop and searched for no apparent reason or being incarcerated at a higher rate than people who are Caucasian who commit the same crime as the people of color. Imagine if the tables were turned and the people who were working in the factories were citizens who were Caucasian and born in America, would they have accepted the harsh treatment the Jewish people received from the foreman along with the long hours and not being able to see your family every night because one is too tired to be with their families. The answer is no , they would demand change and better- working conditions , if that’s the case why can’t Caucasian fight for the right of people of color and demand change within the legal system and have everyone