Conference paper
Slovak Immigration to the United States and its Relation to the American Socialist and Labor Movements
M. Mark Stolarik
; The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, USA
Abstract
Slovak immigrants in the United States of America did not show a considerable interest in taking part in the American labor movement. One of the reasons for this lies in the fact that young single men would come to the United States in order to get rich, and then to get back home as soon as possible and purchase land there. On the other hand, Slovak immigrant leaders did not have a desire to gather American Slovaks together in the American labor movement. Slovak clergymen in the United States took it upon themselves to maintain their body of believers in the Catholic faith. The outcome of it all was a small number of American Slovaks founding workers' organizations and papers, and they were very distant from one another, too. The number of Slovak immigrants in the ranks of the socialist party of America is negligible.
Keywords
immigrants; labour movement; Slovaks; United States of America
Hrčak ID:
128171
URI
Publication date:
31.5.1988.
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