Author: Nancy L. Green
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Publisher: Duke University Press Books
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ISBN: 0822318849
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Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York (Comparative and International Working-Class History)
Nancy L.Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work review. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban growth, the politics of labor, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work the sewing machines over the last century.
Green focuses on issues of fashion and fabrication as they involve both the production and consumption of clothingRead full reviews of Ready-to-wear And Ready-to-work: A Century Of Industry And Immigrants In Par.
Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban growth, the politics of labor, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work the sewing machines over the last century.
Green focuses on issues of fashion and fabrication as they involve both the production and consumption of clothing. Traditionally, much of the urban garment industry has been organized around small workshops and flexible homework, and Green emphasizes the effect this labor organization had on the men and mostly women who have sewn the garments. Whether considering the immigrant Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Chinese in New York or the Chinese-Cambodians, Turks, Armenians, and Russian, Polish, and Tunisian Jews in Paris, she outlines similarities of social experience in the shops and the unions, while allowing the voices of the workers, in all their diversity to be heard.
A provocative examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference, Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work breaks new ground in the methodology of comparative history.
Green focuses on issues of fashion and fabrication as they involve both the production and consumption of clothingRead full reviews of Ready-to-wear And Ready-to-work: A Century Of Industry And Immigrants In Par.
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author nancy green format hardback language english publication year 01 01 1997 series comparative international working class history subject management business economics industry subject 2 industrial studies general title ready to wear and ready to work a century of industry and immigrants in paris and new york author nancy l green nancy l green publisher duke univ pr publication date jan 01 1997 pages 426 binding hardcover dimensions 6 50 wx 9 75 hx 1 50 d isbn 0822318849 subject business
Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Ready-To-Wear and Ready-To-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York by Nancy L. Green Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New quot;Nancy Green consistently challenges the narratives and categories by which labor historians, sociologists, economists, and journalists have addressed the history of urban garment production. Green #039;s analysis is a quot; tour de force.quot;quot;mdash;Donald Reid,
Ready-To-Wear and Ready-To-Work A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York, ISBN-13: 9780822318743, ISBN-10: 0822318741
"This is a terrific, wide-ranging, and convincing comparative study. It provides the big picture, analyzing the garment industry and particularly 'ready-to-wear' from the point of view of economic, social, cultural, political, and gender history. "Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work" provides a much-needed synthesis which is all the bolder for the original research on which it is built."--John Merriman, Yale University
Nancy L. Green offers a critical and lively look at New York's Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women's garment industry. Torn between mass production and 'art', this industry is one of the few manufacturing sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban growth, the politics of labor, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work the sewing machines over the last century.Green focuses on issues of fashion and fabrication as th
Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work Reviews
Green offers a critical and lively look at New York’s Seventh Avenue and the Parisian Sentier in this first comparative study of the two historical centers of the women’s garment industry. Torn between mass production and "art," this industry is one of the few manufactauring sectors left in the service-centered cities of today. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work tells the story of urban growth, the politics of labor, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work the sewing machines over the last century.
Green focuses on issues of fashion and fabrication as they involve both the production and consumption of clothing. Traditionally, much of the urban garment industry has been organized around small workshops and flexible homework, and Green emphasizes the effect this labor organization had on the men and mostly women who have sewn the garments. Whether considering the immigrant Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Chinese in New York or the Chinese-Cambodians, Turks, Armenians, and Russian, Polish, and Tunisian Jews in Paris, she outlines similarities of social experience in the shops and the unions, while allowing the voices of the workers, in all their diversity to be heard.
A provocative examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference, Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work breaks new ground in the methodology of comparative history.
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