Irish Immigrants In early America

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Actually, Germans outnumbered Irish in unskilled labor positions, but Germans commonly ended up in building, construction or where apprenticeship was available. The Irish rarely saw mobility in unskilled labor jobs (243). Once a job was found, the working conditions were nothing to look forward to...
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The pay was very low (around eighty cents per day) and was usually seasonal at that. Predictable hours and shifts were not offered either. Over the course of seven weeks, one man paid his Irish laborers an average of seventy-five cents for a full days work and gave them less than three days work per week (wage records were available on only two of these men)...
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