Sewing Women

Sewing Women

Author: Margaret May Chin

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0231133081

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Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.


The Women's Garment Workers

The Women's Garment Workers

Author: Lewis Levitzki Lorwin

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13:

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This book tells the story of the half-million workers who make the clothes which the American woman wears. The scene is a changing one, shifting from the shops where the clothes are made ot the arena of the public forum and of the national life. The theme is the struggle of an industrial group, once economically weka and neglected, for the recognition of its right and for the humanization of the conditions under whihc it works and lives. It is one of the most poignant and dramatic chapters in the general story of the movement of American Labor for a higher life.


Of Common Cloth

Of Common Cloth

Author: Wendy Chapkis

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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Conference papers on woman worker textile workers and clothing workers in the global textile industry and clothing industry - discusses wages, working conditions, impact of international subcontracting, racial discrimination, sexual division of labour, trade unionization, militancy, strikes, collective agreements, etc.; includes case studies; stresses the need for protective statutory provisions and solidarity. ILO mentioned. Map, photographs and references. List of participants. Conference held in Amsterdam 1982 Oct.


The Women's Garment Workers

The Women's Garment Workers

Author: Lewis Levitzki Lorwin

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13:

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This book tells the story of the half-million workers who make the clothes which the American woman wears. The scene is a changing one, shifting from the shops where the clothes are made ot the arena of the public forum and of the national life. The theme is the struggle of an industrial group, once economically weka and neglected, for the recognition of its right and for the humanization of the conditions under whihc it works and lives. It is one of the most poignant and dramatic chapters in the general story of the movement of American Labor for a higher life.