This book is not only about the tailoring industry and its trade unions; it is about the experience of eastern European immigrants in the trade, the role of women in a new industry and about the impact of socio-economic change on fashion.

This book is not only about the tailoring industry and its trade unions; it is about the experience of eastern European immigrants in the trade, the role of women in a new industry and about the impact of socio-economic change on fashion.

This is an examination of the settlement, integration and assimilation processes undergone by three different immigrant groups over a period of almost 350 years, assessing the relative successes and failures.

An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital.

A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman's work to present a wide range of insights into the historical characters and events of the East End. The book's themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics,...

An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital.

A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman's work to present a wide range of insights into the historical characters and events of the East End. The book's themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics,...