Out of this furnace
In his novel, Out of This Furnace, Thomas Bell reveals the hardships that three generations of an immigrant family had to endure due to being in the working class of the Pittsburgh steel mills. This is just one example of the hardships that the immigrant worker faced when coming to America. The nature of immigration to America for most immigrants was to make money and to make a better life for themselves and their families. Many believed, when coming to America, they would become rich, as Kracha believes, "Who knows? We may all be millionaires by then" (Bell, 7). Often the only job opportunities available to immigrants were factory and mill jobs. The life of a mill worker was not a luxurious life. This is obvious in the lives of George Kracha and Mike Dobrejcak. The American immigrant workers' story is one of little success and of failure because of the prejudices and bias' faced by the workers; the poverty because of low wages, and the high death rates. The immigrant workers' story is somewhat successful because many were able to accumulate more money than they were able to make in their home country. Many immigrants were better off in America with their freedoms. As George Kracha says, "I'll a
They rarely were given the opportunity to move up the social ladder to well paying jobs due to discrimination by the white "Native" Americans. After her husband died, she did not know how she was going to support her children. Few were able to get into politics and better their lives. The first thing that immigrants encountered when coming to America was prejudice. Often workers in the mills and factories would receive pay cuts during the summers because the work in the mills slowed. Workers were often unable to receive promotions or higher wages due to their ethnicity. Dobie and Julie conceive a child since they were now able to provide for a child. He was able to take advantage of the freedoms and opportunities in America and use them to his advantage. America was the only industrial nation that did not have a worker's compensation program; so many times the company did not give the family enough money to cover the funeral expenses. Many workers were injured or even killed, as in the case of Mike Dobrejcak. Automatic mills then appeared which helped work increase. Throughout the novel many became very ill and some even died from illness such as George's wife, Elena.
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