Research Catalog

Title

Holding up more than half the sky : Chinese women garment workers in New York city, 1948-92 / Xiaolan Bao ; foreword by Roger Daniels.

Author

Bao, Xiaolan.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xvi, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The Asian American experience

Uniform Title

Asian American experience.

Subjects

• Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
• Chinese American women > Employment > New York (State) > New York
• Women clothing workers > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-324) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Roger Daniels -- Pt. 1. The Milieu. 1. The Vicissitudes of New York City's Garment Industry: A Brief History. 2. The Garment Workers: Gender, Race, and Class in the City's Garment Industry. 3. The Growth of the Chinatown Garment Industry -- Pt. 2. Chinese Women Workers Before 1982. 4. New York's Chinese Working-Class Families during the Exclusion Era. 5. The Transformation of New York's Chinese Working-Class Families after World War II. 6. Women in the Chinatown Garment Industry. 7. Chinese Women Workers and the ILGWU -- Pt. 3. The 1982 Strike and Its Impact. 8. Winds of Change: Preconditions of the Strike. 9. The 1982 Strike. 10. Continuing the Struggle, 1982-92.

ISBN

• 0252026314 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0252073509 (pbk.)

LCCN

00010607

OCLC

• ocm44720743
• SCSB-4174523

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries