Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface What's the Use of History?
Introduction The Rise and Fall of the Garment Industry in New York City
1 From Downtown Tenements to Midtown Lofts. The Shifting Geography of an Urban Industry
2 The Globalization of New York's Garment Industry
3 The Geographical Movement of Chinese Garment Shops. A Late-Twentieth-Century Tale of the New York Garment Industry
Part II Workers and Entrepreneurs: Home and Shop
4 Cockroach Capitalists Jewish Contractors at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
5 Tailors and Troublemakers. Jewish Militancy in the New York Garment Industry, 1889-1910
6 Culture of Work. Italian Immigrant Women Homeworkers in the
7 On Dominicans in New York City's Garment Industry
8 Expanding Spheres. Men and Women in the Late Twentieth-Century Garment Industry
Part III Taking Responsibility for Conditions in the Industry: Unions, Consumers, Public
9 ''Social Responsibility on a Global Level'' The National Consumers League, Fair Labor, and Worker Rights at Century's End
Notes
Contributors
Index