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Ready-to-wear and ready-to-work : a century of industry and immigrants in Paris and New York

Author: Nancy L Green
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.
Series: Comparative and international working-class history.
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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
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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