Ready-to-wear and Ready-to-work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York (Comparative & International Working-Class History)

by NancyGreen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $48.82

  Presents the story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who came to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry in the US. This book also provides an examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference.