Sewing Women : : Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry / / Margaret Chin.
Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past several decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. In the 1990s, the garment industry was one of the largest immigrant employers in New York...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Legacies: New York City Garment Industry
- Chapter 2. Doing Ethnic Business
- Chapter 3. Getting from There to Here
- Chapter 4. The Attractions of Cloth
- Chapter 5. What Employers Want
- Chapter 6. Landing Work
- Chapter 7. The Bottom Line
- Chapter 8. Immigrants and the Economy
- Epilogue
- Appendix. Research Design and Methodology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index