Author: Green, Nancy L.
Title: Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xi,426 pp. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Fashion as Industry; Fashion & Flexibility: The Garment Industry between Haute Couture & Jeans; Seventh Avenue; The Sentier; Bermuda Shorts in Comparative Perspective; The Social Consequences of Flexibility; The Sweatshop as Workplace & Metaphor; Women, Immigrants, & Skill in the Garment Shops; "An Industry of Passage": The Immigrant Waves; Conflict & Consensus on Seventh Avenue; Economic & Ethnic Identities in the Parisian Patchwork; Conclusion.

Keywords: Labor Sociology, Garment Industry, Immigrant Labour, Industrial History, Women Immigrants, Paris France, New York, United States, Comparative