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 and...
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 hist...
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents journalistic accounts of strikes, memoirs by former activists, police records to argue that a nationalist movement fueled by the effects of foreign imperialism had a far greater hold on working-class identity than did class...
In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late n...
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Eva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of the twentieth century. Until the end of World War II women's lives in the two countries, which were once part of the same empire, followed similar paths, which only began to diverge after the communist takeover in Hungary in the late 1940s. Fodor takes advantage of Austria and Hungary's...
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state sociali...
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 and...
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 hist...