Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface What’s the Use of History? ix
5. Introduction The Rise and Fall of the Garment Industry in New York City 1
6. 1 From Downtown Tenements to Midtown Lofts. The Shifting Geography of an Urban Industry 27
7. 2 The Globalization of New York’s Garment Industry 45
8. 3 The Geographical Movement of Chinese Garment Shops. A Late-Twentieth-Century Tale of the New York Garment Industry 67
9. Part II Workers and Entrepreneurs: Home and Shop
10. 4 Cockroach Capitalists Jewish Contractors at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 89
11. 5 Tailors and Troublemakers. Jewish Militancy in the New York Garment Industry, 1889–1910 115
12. 6 Culture of Work. Italian Immigrant Women Homeworkers in the 141
13. 7 On Dominicans in New York City’s Garment Industry 169
14. 8 Expanding Spheres. Men and Women in the Late Twentieth-Century Garment Industry 193
15. Part III Taking Responsibility for Conditions in the Industry: Unions, Consumers, Public
16. 9 ‘‘Social Responsibility on a Global Level’’ The National Consumers League, Fair Labor, and Worker Rights at Century’s End 209
17. Notes 235
18. Contributors 273
19. Index 275