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“Forget your past, your customs, your ideals. Select a goal and pursue it with all your might. No matter what happens to you, hold on. You will experience a bad time but sooner or later you will achieve your goal [...] A bit of advice for you: Do not take a moment’s rest. Run, do, work and keep your own good in mind. A final virtue is needed in America — called cheek [...] Do not say. ‘I cannot; I do not know’.”1 New York at the end of the 19th century was looking for workers and the immigrants were looking for work. Price recommends two forms of behavior for successful integration in the USA: The willingness to work and the belief in the American philosophy “everything is possible.” A core element of the community building was work. The loosely knit community in New York at this time was characterized by economic freedom alone. This economic absolutism didn’t foresee any support structures for immigrants. There wasn’t any collective project based on solidarity, which is why these costs had to be borne by the small communities of immigrants, families, or isolated individuals: “The cunning and unscrupulousness that were often incidental to material rise, the anxiety that accompanied the blistering pace of frontier industries, and the fear of poverty and unemployment took a heavy toll on physical and psychological well-being. [...] The contrasts between the successful and those less fortunate produced chasms which law, the state, and society were slow to bridge. As the apparel trades grew to be without a peer in the industrial life of the city, the voice of protest would sound with ever-mounting resonance. The community of responsibility that had been shattered by the combined pressures of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization would be rewoven upon new looms.”2

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