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Acehan - Turkish Leatherworkers in Peabody, Massachusetts [947f77e6]

Tags: papers, Post-Ottoman Near East

Quick adjustment of Turkish workers to labor rights despite their rural background resulted from lectures given by the Turkish community, changing circumstances of Balkan and WWI.

  • 90% of early Turkish immigrants returned to Turkey in the late 1920's and 30's.
  • Vecoli - If we are to advance the study of immigration beyond the level of facile generalizations, we need a series of microstudies which trace particular contingents of immigrants from their specific origins to their specific destinations - pg 22

  • Most turkish immigrants ended up near Peabody, MA, a center for leatherworking

    • Hard labor for tannery work
  • Rise of "Ottoman street" containing coffee houses for laborers to discuss and get news on their homelands

  • Balkan Wars and WWI began more understanding about collective labor rights

    • WWI in particular began more ethnic and class-conscious
  • organized labor began with the Local No 1 of the United Leather Worker's Union
  • Unique place faded away due to increasing prospects in the homeland