Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work : A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York /

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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 f...

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Autor principal: Green, Nancy L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mode.
Immigranten.
Naaisters.
Kledingindustrie.
Women foreign workers.
Women clothing workers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleuses etrangeres > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Travailleuses etrangeres > France > Paris > Histoire.
Travailleuses du vêtement > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Travailleuses du vêtement > France > Paris > Histoire.
Women foreign workers > New York (State) > New York > History.
Women foreign workers > France > Paris > History.
Women clothing workers > New York (State) > New York > History.
Women clothing workers > France > Paris > History.
New York (State) > New York.
France > Paris.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 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 an
Descripción Física:1 online resource (446 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822382744

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