A Coat of Many Colors : : Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in New York City's Garment Industry / / ed. by Daniel Soyer.
For more than a century and a half—from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th—the garment industry was the largest manufacturing industry in New York City, and New York made more clothes than anywhere else. For generations, the industry employed more New Yorkers than any other and wa...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface What’s the Use of History?
- Introduction The Rise and Fall of the Garment Industry in New York City
- 1 From Downtown Tenements to Midtown Lofts. The Shifting Geography of an Urban Industry
- 2 The Globalization of New York’s Garment Industry
- 3 The Geographical Movement of Chinese Garment Shops. A Late-Twentieth-Century Tale of the New York Garment Industry
- Part II Workers and Entrepreneurs: Home and Shop
- 4 Cockroach Capitalists Jewish Contractors at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 5 Tailors and Troublemakers. Jewish Militancy in the New York Garment Industry, 1889–1910
- 6 Culture of Work. Italian Immigrant Women Homeworkers in the
- 7 On Dominicans in New York City’s Garment Industry
- 8 Expanding Spheres. Men and Women in the Late Twentieth-Century Garment Industry
- Part III Taking Responsibility for Conditions in the Industry: Unions, Consumers, Public
- 9 ‘‘Social Responsibility on a Global Level’’ The National Consumers League, Fair Labor, and Worker Rights at Century’s End
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index