| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalization, and Reform in New York City's Garment Industry. Ed. by Daniel Soyer. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xii, 284 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-8232-2486-4. Paper, $26.00, ISBN 0-8232-2487-2.)

Daniel Soyer, in the preface to A Coat of Many Colors, promises "a fascinating journey through the garment industry past and present" (p. xii). And indeed it is. Originally conceived out of the Sweatshop Project, sponsored by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), this edited volume includes work by some of the most impressive scholars of the New York City garment industry. As the largest manufacturing industry in the city since the middle of the nineteenth century, garment production has been linked to the financial, fashion, and transportation industries. Waves of immigrant communities that provided cheap labor and petty entrepreneurs have shaped and been shaped by the garment industry. Jews, Italians, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Chinese, and others in the increasingly complex international system of production have confronted the opportunities and oppressions in tenement sweatshops and midtown factories through unionization and mechanization. These essays broadly explore the economics, ethnic makeup, geography, and political implications of garment manufacturing for New York and the national and international garment trade.

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