How did immigration in the 1800's contribute to the industrilazation?
Answer:
By WORKING. Its a concept today's ILLEGAL immigration population has a hard time grasping.
Teams of Irish and Chinese helped build the TransContinental Railroad, connecting the eastern and western half of this country.
Chinese immigrant laborers in Seattle gutted and packed fish until their role was taken over by the "iron chink", an automatic fish cleaning and gutting machine. Many immigrants took assembly line work in the industrial factories, including the textile industries. (If this is a question for high school homework, re-read your text for details.)
BTW, my great grandmother was a Swedish immigrant, and a cook, and my great grandfather was a brick carrier.
An increase of available labor, mainly concentrated in the port cities in which the immigrants arrived (due to their not having enough money to leave once they got here) made the cost of labor cheap enough to make things like factories and other implementations of mass production profitable. This is turn gave the laborers money to spend, which increased demand for goods and produced more production-oriented jobs.
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