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9780822318842

Ready-To-Wear and Ready-To-Work

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822318842

  • ISBN10:

    0822318849

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-01-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"This is a terrific, wide-ranging, and convincing comparative study. It provides the big picture, analyzing the garment industry and particularly 'ready-to-wear' from the point of view of economic, social, cultural, political, and gender history. "Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work" provides a much-needed synthesis which is all the bolder for the original research on which it is built."--John Merriman, Yale University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(12)
I Fashion as Industry 13(122)
1 Fashion and Flexibility: The Garment Industry between Haute Couture and Jeans
15(29)
2 Seventh Avenue
44(30)
3 The Sentier
74(31)
4 Bermuda Shorts in Comparative Perspective
105(30)
II The Social Consequences of Flexibility 135(145)
5 The Sweatshop as Workplace and Metaphor
137(24)
6 Women, Immigrants, and Skill in the Garment Shops
161(27)
7 "An Industry of Passage": The Immigrant Waves
188(31)
8 Conflict and Consensus on Seventh Avenue
219(32)
9 Economic and Ethnic Identities in the Parisian Patchwork
251(29)
Conclusion 280(13)
Notes 293(86)
Bibliography 379(32)
Index 411

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