Adjusting immigrant and industry

Front matter

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Americhnization Studies

By WILLIAM M. LEISEKSON

Foreword

This volume is the result of studies in methods of Americanization prepared through funds fur¬ nished by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It arose out of the fact that constant applications were being made to the Corporation for contribu¬ tions to the work of numerous agencies engaged in various forms of social activity intended to extend among the people of the United States the knowledge of their government and their obli¬ gations to it. The trustees felt that a study which should set forth, not theories of social betterment, but a description of the methods of the various agencies engaged in such work, would be of dis¬ tinct value to the cause itself and to the public.

The outcome of the study is contained in eleven volumes on the following subjects: Schooling of the Immigrant ; The Press; Adjustment of Homes and Family Life; Legal Protection and Correction; Health Standards and Care; Naturalization and Political Life; Industrial and Economic Amal¬ gamation; Treatment of Immigrant Heritages; Neighborhood Agencies and Organization; Rural Developments; and Summary. The entire study has been carried out under the general direction of Mr. Allen T. Burns. Each volume appears in the

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FOREWORD name of the author who had immediate charge of the particular field it is intended to cover.

Upon the invitation of the Carnegie Corpora¬ tion a committee consisting of the late Theodore Roosevelt, Prof. John Graham Brooks, Dr. John M. Glenn, and Mr. John A. Voll has acted in an advisory capacity to the director. An editorial committee consisting of Dr. Talcott Williams, Dr. Raymond B. Fosdick, and Dr. Edwin F. Gay has read and criticized the manuscripts. To both of these committees the trustees of the Carnegie Cor¬ poration are much indebted.

The purpose of the report is to give as clear a notion as possible of the methods of the agencies actually at work in this field and not to propose theories for dealing with the complicated questions involved.

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Table Of Contents

Publisher’s Note Foreword Table of Contents List of Tables Author’s Note

CHAPTER

I. Industry and Americanization What Is Americanization?

Contents

CHAPIE3 PAGE

The Policy That Alienates 70

Changing Attitudes 73