The Importance Of Jobs In The 1930's

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Jobs in the 1930’s Immigrants had the most hardships during this time more than anyone did. Their way of living was extremely hard, they hardly had any money. Work was very stressful, they had no breaks, very little pay and no privacy what so ever. Imagine living life like they did. Immigrants had no luck or respect, to add to that they lived in such bad poverty. They had no money for food or for a place to live, even their kids had to work as hard maybe even harder. Their pay was very little, to be exact it was 5 cents for 6 days of the week. Jobs were basically very hard to find, especially for mexican-americans. Most people didn't like the idea of them being there, because they thought they were stealing jobs from others.

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