The Jews and the Great "Sweated Labor" Debate: 1888-1892

England received a large number of Jewish immigrants in the late nineteenth century. The most important occupations for them were tailoring, the boot & shoe trade, & the tobacco business. The tailoring trade was dominant, with many Jews working as sweatshop employees; they could quickly work...

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Published in:Jewish social studies 1979-07, Vol.41 (3/4), p.257-274
Main Author: Pilzer, Jay M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
DISCRIMINATION
Economic systems
England/English (see also Britain, Great Britain, UK)
GREAT BRITAIN
HOUSE OF LORDS (ALL NATIONS)
Immigrant/Immigrants
Immigration
Jew/Jews/Jewry/Jewish (see also Judaism)
Jewish migration
Jewish peoples
JEWS, JEWISH PEOPLE
LABOR UNIONS (BUT NOT GUILDS)
Occupation/Occupations/Occupational
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
POLITICAL HISTORY
Sweaters
Sweating
Tailoring
Trade
Wages
Work/Works/Working
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Summary:England received a large number of Jewish immigrants in the late nineteenth century. The most important occupations for them were tailoring, the boot & shoe trade, & the tobacco business. The tailoring trade was dominant, with many Jews working as sweatshop employees; they could quickly work their way up to being sweatshop operators. Investigation of this problem led many Englishmen to see sweating as a problem of Jewish immigrants only. Debate over these issues represented a problem of economic philosophy between liberals, who did not want to restrict immigration, & conservatives, who were concerned with native English workers' rights. W. H. Stoddard.
ISSN:0021-6704
1527-2028