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A social history of immigration and ethnicity that focuses on topics such as immigrant institutions, including family, church, community life, unions, gangs, fire companies, saloons, theatres, social mobility, and the role of ethnicity and class responses to the immigrant problem, including assimilation, nativism, racism, and restriction; immigrant ghettos and boss rule; changing immigrant stereotypes; work experience; labor violence, and the methods of social control. |