Essay On South African American Imperialism

African and Asian colonies established during the age of Imperialism affected economies around the world. A large factor in the participation of many people was the need for money, and a change in the colonies’ inhabitants lives was largely driven by the necessity of migration. The thatjobs available varied from plantation work to mining.

Driven by the need for money, the loss of land adequate to support families, or sometimes by the orders of colonial authorities, millions of colonial subjects sought employment. Gold rushes in Australia, Peru and California attracted hundreds to thousands of immigrants, from places such as China and Africa. Almost all of the immigrants were treated terribly, but the hemigrants had to deal with this discrimination

Because of the loss of land previously owned for sustainment, many natives had to pursue work at unskilled positions which provided manual labor that furthered European imperialist interest. Large amounts of gold and diamond deposits found in South Africa encouraged many migratory workers to come over. However, payment was at a fraction of skilled white workers and housing was in prison-like conditions. European imposed-limitations made sure which migrants were stuck as laborers for imperialists, as there were no other jobs that would involve the native’s limited skillset. The working immigrants in the European colonies were very similar to the laboring class in Great Britain. Seventy percent of the population were working in mines, ports, factories, construction sites workshops and farms, similar to the international wage labor workers that worked in plantations, mines and construction projects. The lower class which lived in those British cities had inadequate sanitation, many epidemics, polluted water sources and little to no, public services. Both of the wage labor immigrants and the laboring class in Britain lived similar lives in very poor working and living