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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Green, Nancy L. Ready-to-wear and ready-to-work. Durham : Duke University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)608913293 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nancy L Green |
| ISBN: | 0822318849 9780822318842 0822318741 9780822318743 |
| OCLC Number: | 34849693 |
| Description: | xi, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Comparative and international working-class history. |
| Responsibility: | Nancy L. Green. |
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