What kind of jobs were available (mainly to immigrants) during the Progressive Era or Gilded Age?

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The laborers in the factories of America worked under terrible conditions and lived in crowded tenements in slums and ghettoes. Science and technology changed life for the better in many ways. It also made things more complex, made many jobs obsolete, and it seemed strange and terrifying to many people. Many white people may have felt that African-Americans were taking jobs that were available for more deserving whites. This may have been why there was so many.

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