Immigrant Women's Lives
Subtitle: Weaving Garment Work and Legislative Policy (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780815333883
Subjects: Women's studies; Work & labour; United States; Government policy; Women & Business; Employment Of Women; History Of Labor; Business & Economics; History - General History; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business/Economics; USA; History / General; Women clothing workers; United States - General; Economic History; Labor; Women immigrants; Economic conditions; Emigration and immigration
First sentence: This research examines the role of work in the lives of twenty immigrant women employed at the Learbury garment factory in central New York.