Labor and San Francisco's garment industry.
Contributors: Chinese Historical Society of America.
Publisher: Chinese Historical Society of America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781885864352
Subjects: Clothing workers -- California -- San Francisco.; Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco.; Clothing trade -- California -- San Francisco.; Chinese Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History.; Chinese Americans -- Employment -- California -- San Francisco.; Alien labor, Chinese -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Special issue of: Chinese America, history and perspectives.
Table of contents: title: Guilds, unions, and garment factories : notes on Chinese in the apparel industry / Him Mark Lai and Russell Jeung; title: Scenes from the garment industry, late 1800s-early 1900s : beyond San Francisco; title: Chinese labor unions in America / Walter N. Fong; title: Chines guilds in the apparel industry of San Francisco / Him Mark Lai; title: History of Meizhou Gongyi Tongmeng Zonghui (Unionist Guild of America) / Shuyao; title: The Chinese American garment industry / Zhang Hentang (Benjamin Fee); title: Jennie Matyas and the national dollar stores factory strike in San Francisco Chinatown / Jennie Matyas and Corinne L. Gilb; title: Organizing and on strike : portraits of the Chinese Ladies Garment Workers Unions Local No. 341 in 1938; title: Labor strike in Chinatown - official statements of parties involved; title: Female workers in the Chinatown garment industry, 1960s; title: Scenes from the garment industry, 1960s-1970s : setting fashions, negotiating working conditions; title: Made in Chinatown : the decline of San Francisco's garment industry / Dean Ryuta Adachi and Valerie Lo; title: "The only thing I could do was sew" : an interview with Li Qin Zhou / interview by Russell Jeung; title: Scenes from the garment industry, early 2000s : wins garment workers demand back pay, enforcement of labor laws; title: "The loss of the garment industry is part of a cycle" : an interview with Fei Yi Chen / interview by Russell Jeung; title: Scenes from a lifetime of sewing for the garment factories : Mrs. Louie Ten Wo Choi (1907-2007) / May Choi and Anna Naruta; title: Nineteenthh-century Oakland Chinese businesses / Kelly Fong; title: English-Chinese glossary of personal names, corporate names, and garment industry terms / Him Mark Lai.