EXAMINING PATTERNS OF ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO ...

mining companies, Calumet & Hecla, Quincy, and Copper Range, and Italian settlements in
Calumet, Quincy, and Adams townships. In fact it would be interesting to know if different
companies encouraged or discouraged Italian workers, and possibly changed their
preferences at different decades. The databases of the Italian community in 1870, 1880,
1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 - included as appendixes - also represent a valuable source of
information for whoever will be interested in studying family demographics, upward
economic mobility, and genealogy. Another interesting work would be comparing Italians to
other ethnic groups to see how they differed as for jobs, occupations, settlements, and
organization.
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