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- Preface
- Part I. The Search for Skill
- 1. Organized Efforts to Promote Immigration
- 2. Patterns of Private Recruitment, 1860-1885
- 3. Uncertainties of the Contract Labor System
- Part II. From European Farms to American Industry
- 4. Agencies in Europe for Recruiting Unskilled Industrial Labor
- 5. The Distribution of Unskilled Immigrants to Industry
- 6. Reactions in the Mines and on the Railroads
- 7. Machinery and Immigration
- Part III. The Anti-Contract Labor Laws
- 8. The Window Glass Workers
- 9. The Foran Act
- 10. Experiments which Failed
- Appendices
- I. Statements of Wages and Prices Published by the American Emigrant Company in Europe
- II. The Foreign Born in the United States Labor Force
- III. Work of the Castle Garden Labor Bureau
- IV. Contract Laborers Deported from the United States
- V. Federal Division of Information
- Notes
- Index