I agree, but you need to add some to your list: wash dishes, make hotel beds, milk cows, pick fruit and veggies, work at the meat packing plant, etc. Unless you are native American, you are the descendant of an immigrant. Unless they fro mthe British Isles, they probably didn't speak English. Guess what- they probably didn't learn it right away, either. ( My family spoke German in the home for 40 years after arrival- and it was only when my grandfather (3rd generation in the states) went to school and new no English that things changed.) And they probably came without a lot of money, and took low end jobs. Yes they maybe got here legally, but laws were different then too. No different than now, business wanted labor, preferrably cheap.
Sad to say, but that human trafficking stuff probably took place then, too. Many industries recruited in Europe and other places for workers back in the 1800s- mining, railroad building etc. Copper mines in the UP had at least 12 languages spoken in the mines in the late 1800s.
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