Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0529 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Coerced Labor and Migration in the Industrial Age
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The idea
Slavery persisted in the United States and Brazil, serfdom in Russia; contract and indentured labor worked every inhabited continent; debt bondage trapped sharecroppers and Japanese textile workers; prisoners labored as punishment. Migrants fleeing poverty and violence took low-paid work on plantations and railroads.
In practice
Asian migration barred by the United States, Canada, Australia.
Where people slip
The demographic transition: smaller families by nineteen hundred.
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