A myth with many meanings!
"In an effort to resolve the dilemma, or at least to explain it away, the term Molly Maguires was expanded from a shorthand term for Irish laziness, violence, and depravity, to a general label covering all forms of labor activism." -- Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998 and 2023), p.286
“As the case of the Irish unequivocally demonstrated, the social advancement of some was predicated in large part on the social degradation of others. This contradiction became even more pronounced with the advent of widespread wage labor and corporate control in the 1860s and 1870s." 1/2
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For others who have written on this topic. See the books of Kate Masur, @schoeppner.bsky.social@kevinkenny.bsky.social@hidehirota.bsky.social@bomalley500.bsky.social Katherine Carper, Cody Nager, Grace Mallon, Connie Thomas.
The origins federal power over immigration as a matter of national security lie in Chinese exclusion. SCOTUS cited the Chinese Exclusion Case (1889) in upholding the so-called Muslim Travel Ban in Trump v. Hawaii (2018), ignoring argments on religious discrimination. 🧵8/8