Well, it's simple. -Greedy elites in England monopolized land and subjected working people to indenture, peonage, servitude, and low wages. The elites got rich

Well, it's simple. -Greedy elites in England monopolized land and subjected working people to indenture, peonage, servitude, and low wages. The elites got richer and richer as living standards stagnated. -Urbanization and the early stages industrial revolution created opportunities for working families. Wages were driven up in the countryside. Elites wanted to import slaves to drive down wages but the English people blocked them. -Elites formed colonies in America and imported slaves in vast numbers. African-Americans eventually gained citizenship and freedom but are still exploited as a low wage class. Civil rights measures are only slowly improving African-American wages. -As African-American wages started to rise, elites in America wanted to import a cheap underclass to drive down wages of working people. The Reagan administration and Congress agree to stop enforcing immigration laws so that big employers can exploit millions of illegal immigrant workers from Latin America. -Latin American immigrants are attracted by the promise of eventual amnesties and then exploited by a system that expels them from the country if they demand their rights as workers. The civil rights and labor laws are effectively nullified and a vast underclass develops.