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.