Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work : A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Nancy L. Green
Bok Engelsk 1997 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 1997.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (448 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - 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
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| ISBN | 0822318741. - 0822318849
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