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The rag race : how Jews sewed their way to success in America and the British Empire / Adam D. Mendelsohn.
Author
Mendelsohn, Adam D., 1979-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]
Description
vii, 297 pages ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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HD9940.U4 M45 2015
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Subject(s)
Clothing trade
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Clothing trade
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Jews
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United States
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Economic conditions
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History
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Jews
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England
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Economic conditions
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History
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Success in business
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Success in business
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Jews
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United States
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Economic conditions
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Series
Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history
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The Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history
Summary note
The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally successful. How can we explain their dramatic economic ascent? Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America? This book argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. From humble beginnings, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a position of unusual promise and prominence, shaping both their societal status and the clothing industry as a whole. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, this book demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-286) and index.
Contents
1. Goblin market: London, 1843
2. New York city: a rag-fair sort of place
3. Rumpled foot soldiers of the market revolution
4. Clothing Moses
5. The Empire's new clothes
6. A new dawn in the West
7. Clothing the blue and gray
8. A ready-made paradise.
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ISBN
9781479847181 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
1479847186 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
9781479814381
1479814385
LCCN
2014018129
OCLC
876883309
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