Ready-to-wear and ready-to-work
Subtitle: a century of industry and immigrants in Paris and New York
By: Nancy L. Green.
Series: Comparative and international working-class history
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780822318842; 9780822318743
Subjects: Women clothing workers -- France -- Paris -- History; Women clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Women alien labor -- France -- Paris -- History; Women alien labor -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Notes: Fashion and flexibility: the garment industry between haute couture and jeans -- Seventh Avenue -- The sentier -- Bermuda shorts in comparative perspective -- The sweatshop as workplace and metaphor -- Women, immigrants, and skill in the garment shops -- "An industry of passage": The immigrant waves -- Conflict and consensus on Seventh Avenue -- Economic and ethnic identities in the Parisian patchwork. 

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-410) and index.