| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations. |
| Contents |
From downtown tenements to midtown lofts: the shifting geography of an urban industry / Nancy L. Green -- The globalization of New York's garment industry / Florence Palpacuer -- The geographical movement of Chinese garment shops: a late twentieth century tale of the New York garment industry / Xiaolan Bao -- Cockroach capitalists: Jewish contractors at the turn of the twentieth century / Daniel Soyer -- Tailors and troublemakers: Jewish militancy in the New York garment industry, 1889-1910 / Hadassa Kosak -- Culture of work: Italian immigrant women homeworkers in the New York City garment industry, 1890-1914 / Nancy C. Carnevale -- On Dominicans in New York City's garment industry / Ramona Hernández -- Expanding spheres: men and women in the late twentieth-century garment industry / Margaret M. Chin -- "Social responsibility on a global level": the National Consumers League, fair labor, and worker rights at century's end / Eileen Boris. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-271) and index. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL. |
| System details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Source of description |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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| Alt Author |
Soyer, Daniel.
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| ISBN |
9780823247592
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0823247597
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