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- In reality, Harney argues, padrones were both exploiters and helpful patrons of the immigrants. They provided jobs the immigrants would not otherwise find. They provided housing, food, and transportation to the highest paying jobs available the padrone could discover.
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The padrone system was a contract labor system utilized by many immigrant groups to find employment in the United States, most notably Italian, but also Greeks, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican Americans. [1] The word 'padrone' is an Italian word meaning 'boss', 'manager' or 'owner' when translated into English.
Feb 10, 2016 · The Padrone -from the Italian word for manager or boss- were labor brokers. These were men who victimized their fellow countrymen as they arrived lost and alone in a foreign land. The new immigrants were in need of guidance, guidance that the Padrones would provide…at a price.
The padrone system was an indentured labor system that preyed upon Italian immigrants to the United States. Many thousands of Italian immigrants found themselves prisoners of the padrone, or patron, system of labor.
The Royal Commission on Italian Immigration was called in 1904 to investigate the exploitation of Italian labourers by employment brokers known as padroni. The padroni recruited Italian workers for Canadian companies and oversaw their transport and employment upon arriving in Canada.
The NYC Transit Museum explained that “When subway contractors needed thousands of laborers for pick and shovel work; they turned to Italian immigrant neighborhood leaders known as “padroni.” The padroni connected the new immigrants to America, organizing workers into crews and escorting them to job sites.”
The first padroni were the traditional Italian street entertainers and hustlers who, wandering about western Europe and North America, employed boys as shills, beggars, and apprentices.
the padroni, assisted immigrants as soon as they were released from Ellis Island, paying bond for the penniless, and provided them with food and shelter without immediate compensation until work was found.
