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.

The Female Economy
The Female Economy

Author: Wendy Gamber

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780252066016

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The Female Economy explores that lost world of women's dominance, showing how independent, often ambitious businesswomen and the sometimes imperious consumers they served gradually vanished from the scene as custom production gave way to a largely unskilled modern garment industry controlled by men. Wendy Gamber helps overturn the portrait of wage-earning women as docile souls who would find fulfillment only in marriage and motherhood.