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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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