@article{1477693,
      recid = {1477693},
      author = {Abram, Ruth J.,  and Bao, Xiaolan,  and Boris, Eileen,   and Carnevale, Nancy C.,  and Chin, Margaret M.,  and  Green, Nancy L.,  and Hernández, Ramona,  and Kosak,  Hadassa,  and Palpacuer, Florence,  and Soyer, Daniel,  and  Soyer, Daniel, },
      title = {A Coat of Many Colors : Immigration, Globalization, and  Reform in New York City's Garment Industry /},
      pages = {1 online resource (296 p.)},
      abstract = {For more than a century and a half-from the middle of the  19th century to the end of the 20th-the garment industry  was the largest manufacturing industry in New York City,  and New York made more clothes than anywhere else. For  generations, the industry employed more New Yorkers than  any other and was central to the city's history, culture,  and identity. Today, although no longer the big heart of  industrial New York, the needle trades are still an  important part of the city's economy-especially for the new  waves of immigrants who cut, sew, and assemble clothing in  shops around the five boroughs. In this valuable book,  historians, sociologists, and economists explore the rise  and fall of the garment industry and its impact on New York  and its people, as part of a global process of economic  change. Essays trace the rise of the industry, from the  creation of a Manhattan garment district employing  immigrants from nearby enements to the contemporary spread  of Chinese-owned shops in cheaper neighborhoods. The  tumultuous history of workers and their bosses is the focus  of chapters on contractors and labor militants and on the  experiences of Italian, Chinese, Jewish, Dominican, and  other ethnic workers. The final chapter looks at air labor,  social responsibility, and the political economy of the  offshore garment industry.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477693},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290734},
}