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Tables of Contents for Holding Up More Than Half the Sky
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Roger Daniels
Acknowledgments
xi
A Note on Interviews and Transliterations
xv
Introduction
1
14
PART 1: THE MILIEU
The Vicissitudes of New York City's Garment Industry: A Brief History
15
12
The Garment Workers: Gender, Race, and Class in the City's Garment Industry
27
16
The Growth of the Chinatown Garment Industry
43
30
PART 2: CHINESE WOMEN WORKERS BEFORE: 1982
New York's Chinese Working-Class Families during the Exclusion Era
73
16
The Transformation of New York's Chinese Working-Class Families after World War II
89
21
Women in the Chinatown Garment Industry
110
33
Chinese Women Workers and the ILGWU
143
30
PART 3: THE 1982 STRIKE AND ITS IMPACT
Winds of Change: Preconditions of the Strike
173
24
The 1982 Strike
197
16
Continuing the Struggle, 1982-92
213
32
Conclusion
245
8
Epilogue
253
2
Glossary
255
6
Notes
261
44
Bibliography
305
20
Index
325