Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 (Asian American Experience) by Xiaolan Bao - 2006-05-08

Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. 8x6x0. [NEW YORK]. Bao, Xiaolan, and Roger Daniels. "Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92." Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white images. 9 x 5.75 x 1 in. 23 x 14 x 2 cm. 19 oz. pp. xvi, 330. Front cover bows out. Wear on wrappers. Laminate lined on back wrapper. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. White out on first page. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9780252073502."In 1982, 20,000 Chinese-American garment workers—most of them women—went on strike in New York City. Every Chinese garment industry employer in the city soon signed a union contract. The successful action reflected the ways women's changing positions within their families and within the workplace galvanized them… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of Illinois Press, 2006-05-08. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!