Holding up more than half the sky : Chinese women garment workers in New York city, 1948-92 - Bao, Xiaolan (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2001)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index.
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Keywords: Women clothing workers -- New York (State) -- New York; Chinese American women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York; Chinatown (New York, N.Y.); Travailleuses du vêtement -- New York (État) -- New York; Américaines d'origine chinoise -- Travail -- New York (État) -- New York; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General; Women clothing workers; New York (State) -- New York; New York (State) -- New York -- Chinatown