most people immigrating to the United States in the contemporary period, however, education and developed work skills are prerequisites.
Further, in American society in the contemporary period, a relatively good formal education and developed work skills are required if an individual hopes to succeed. These criteria are as applicable to those people born in the United States as they are to immigrants. Most immigrants to the United States in the contemporary period who possess neither the required education or work skills may expect to remain at the bottom of the economic ladder for as long as they remain in the United States. Similarly, it is quite difficult for the children of such immigrants in the contemporary period.
2. What role did the local state (through machine politics) play in the development of labor relations and the class system? Do you agree with his assertion that machine and ethnically based politics have serve to blur class divisions and forestall the development of labor based political parties? How does this appl
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