Ready-to-wear and ready-to-work: a century of industry and immigrants in Paris and New York

Introduction -- I Fashion as Industry -- 1 Fashion and Flexibility: The Garment Industry between Haute Couture and Jeans -- 2 Seventh Avenue -- 3 The Sentier -- 4 Bermuda Shorts in Comparative Perspective -- II The Social Consequences of Flexibility -- 5 The Sweatshop as Workplace and Metaphor -- 6...

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Main Author: Green, Nancy L. 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC, USA Duke University Press [2012?]
Series:Comparative and international working-class history
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Summary:Introduction -- I Fashion as Industry -- 1 Fashion and Flexibility: The Garment Industry between Haute Couture and Jeans -- 2 Seventh Avenue -- 3 The Sentier -- 4 Bermuda Shorts in Comparative Perspective -- II The Social Consequences of Flexibility -- 5 The Sweatshop as Workplace and Metaphor -- 6 Women, Immigrants, and Skill in the Garment Shops -- 7 An Industry of Passage: The Immigrant Waves -- 8 Conflict and Consensus on Seventh Avenue -- 9 Economic and Ethnic Identities in the Parisian Patchwork -- Conclusion
Item Description:Informationen wurden der Landingpage entnommen, da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden sind (Duke University Press)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 426 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9780822382744
DOI:10.1215/9780822382744

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