he yards were woman, usually holding designated "woman only" jobs such as package handling positions. Woman were typically paid ten cents an hour less that men, which was a significant amount less in the time period. Although many American born citizens worked in the yards, the majority of the workers were immigrants.
             Immigration to Chicago greatly increased with the stockyards continuously growing. Many different immigrant groups came to Chicago to work in the yards, and because of the heavy immigration in the early twentieth century Chicago became the American city with the fastest growing population rate (Journal of Social History, Spring 1996). Immigration from Ireland grew because of the religious wars and the potato famine of the time. German immigrants came to America because of the separation of the government and business, and the lack of jobs before the German industrial revolution occurred. Blacks came from American southern states in response to the end of the civil war, and the beginnin
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