The article has two authors, James Barrett and David Roediger, thus giving the point of view of one of the authors is not only misleading but inaccurate. I would therefore give the point of view of both the authors, as reflected in the article.
In this article, the authors focus on the relationship between the Irish Americans and the “new immigrants.” They argue that the Irish Americans developed some sort of social capitalism through networking within the ethnic community. This was because of their extraordinary pre-migration experience in mass nationalist politics and church building. The Irish translated the elaborate ...