Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 by Roger Daniels, Xiaolan Bao

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92

Roger Daniels, Xiaolan Bao

360 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

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In 1982, twenty thousand Chinese American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced Chinese garment industry employers in the city to sign a union contract. In this pioneering study, Xiaolan Bao penetrates ...

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