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Title A coat of many colors : immigration, globalism, and reform in the New York City garment industry / edited by Daniel Soyer
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2005

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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
Analysis Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-271) and index
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SUBJECT Metropolitan Museum of Art gnd
Subject Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Clothing trade
Clothing workers
Immigrants
Kledingindustrie.
Immigranten.
Arbeitnehmer
Bekleidungsindustrie
Einwanderer
New York (State) -- New York
New York Staat
New York (Staat)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Soyer, Daniel
LC no. 2005006635
ISBN 9780823247592
0823247597