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Author Chin, Margaret May, 1962- author.

Title Sewing women : immigrants and the New York City garment industry / Margaret M. Chin
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)
Series Columbia comparative studies on ethnicity and race
Columbia comparative studies on ethnicity and race.
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; Notes; Bibliography; INDEX
Summary Many Latino and Chinese women who immigrated to New York City over the past two decades found work in the garment industry-an industry well known for both hiring immigrants and its harsh working conditions. Today the garment industry is one of the largest immigrant employers in New York City and workers in Chinese- and Korean-owned factories produce 70 percent of all manufactured clothing in New York City. Based on extensive interviews with workers and employers, Margaret M. Chin, offers a detailed and complex portrait of the work lives of Chinese and Latino garment workers. Chin, whose m
Notes Ph. D. Columbia University 1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and index
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Subject Women clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Foreign workers, Asian -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Foreign workers, Latin American -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Clothing trade
Foreign workers, Asian
Foreign workers, Latin American
Women clothing workers
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Bekleidungsindustrie
Kledingindustrie.
Arbeidsomstandigheden.
Chinezen.
Spaanse Amerikanen.
Vrouwenarbeid.
New York (State) -- New York
New York, NY
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231508034
9780231508032