Rag Race. How Jews sewed their way to success in America and the British Empire

Details:

Author(s) Mendelsohn, Adam D
Publication type Monograph
Year published 2014
Pages 385pp
Publisher New York University Press
Place Published New York NY

Topics:

Name Faith & ethnicity
Name Entrepreneurship inc cultural influences, opportunity, etc
Name Comparative international studies

Countries:

United States

Library:

Name Oxford University Libraries
City Oxford
County Oxfordshire
Country England
Postcode OX1 3BG
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Notes:

Deals with the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States and in England to find that differences within the garment industry between the two countries contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting.