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Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country
Kabul Under Siege: An Inside Account of the 1929 Uprising (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the III-IX Century
Slavery in Islamic Middle East
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica
Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica
In the Land of Hummel: Traditional Bavarian Life
Ravensbruck: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp
The Grand Minor League: Pacific Coast Football
Western Humanities
Greek People
A Strange Liberation: Tibetan Lives in Chinese Hands
Gettysburg: That Hallowed Ground
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Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 (Asian American Experience)

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Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 (Asian American Experience)
Xiaolan Bao
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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ASIN: 0252073509

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In 1982, twenty thousand Chinese-American garment workers-mostly women--went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced every Chinese garment industry employer in the city to sign a union contract. In this pioneering study, Xiaolan Bao penetrates to the heart of Chinese-American society to explain how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.

Bao conducted more than a hundred interviews, primarily with Chinese immigrant women who were working or had worked in the Chinatown garment shops and garment-related institutions in the city. Blending these poignant, often dramatic personal stories with a detailed history of the garment industry, Chinese immigrant labor, and the Chinese community in New York, Bao shows how the high rate of married women participating in wage-earning labor outside the home profoundly transformed family culture and with it the image and empowerment of Chinese-American women.

Bao offers a complex and subtle discussion of the interplay of ethnic and class factors within the garment industry in New York City. She examines the exploitative paternalism, rooted in ethnic social and economic structures, by which operators sustained low wages and marginal working conditions. She also documents the uneasy relationship between the ILGWU and rank-and-file women garment workers whose claim to direct representation was essentially ignored by union leadership.

Through the words of the women workers themselves, Bao shows how their changing positions within their families and within the workplace galvanized them to unite and stand up for themselves. Passionately told and prodigiously documented, Holding Up More Than Half the Sky is an important contribution to Asian-American history, labor history, and the history of women.

Holding Up Half of the Sky: The New Women Consumers of Asia

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Holding Up Half of the Sky: The New Women Consumers of Asia
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong , and MasterCard
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0470822066

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HOLDING UP HALF OF THE SKY

The New Women Consumers of Asia

Through his detailed analyses of demographic and economic data amassed in this book, Dr. Yuwa Hedrick-Wong has convincingly explained the role of women as an important force shaping the Asian Consumer Market.
- Francis T. Lui
Professor of Economics & Director, Center for Economic Development
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Holding Up Half of the Sky: The New Women Consumers of Asia is a gold mine of information and insights demonstrating the increasingly important role of women as a driving force of consumption and market development in Asian countries. Combining demographics, profiles of female consumer groups, and the most up-to-date estimates of $500 billion of discretionary spending by 2014, this book pushes the frontiers of market research to new levels.
- Dr. R. Paul Shaw
Former Lead Economist, currently Program Advisor
Human Development Group, World Bank Institute

Sensitive and Rigorous, the research combines the best of quantitative and qualitative techniques to provide a lucid, readable overview of the status of Asian women today, and speculates on emerging trends. From an intimate perch on the lofty peak of women's studies, the author scans the data and provides fascinating insights into how to cash in on the expanding potential of the female purse in Asia in the 21st century. A must-read of all marketers.
Dr. Sharon Siddique
partner
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This book provides reliable insights, supported with scientific methodology, on one of the "mega-trends' of Asian and global market development. A better understanding of women's consumption power can also shed light on the consumption power of men, and as a result, that of the global market as well.
Professor Fan Gang
Director of National Economic research Institute
China Reform Foundation, Beijing

Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future

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Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future

Manufacturer: Feminist Press
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ASIN: 1558614656

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These 21 dynamic articles by Chinese women scholars explore the limitations on women's lives in premodern China, detail their involvement in the great political movements of the 20th century and examine how new laws have improved women's status, yet have left them open to exploitation as China enters the global economy. With statistics and reports otherwise unavailable, they give a refreshing outlook on China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of struggle it embodies.

Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More than Half the Sky (Sport in the Global Society)

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Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More than Half the Sky (Sport in the Global Society)
Dong Jinxia
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0714682144

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"Women hold up half the sky" and "Women can do what men can do" are not just popular slogans peddled by Chairman Mao, but recent actualities of China's elite sport. In every Olympics since 1988 women have increased their representation over men. Their extraordinary performances have thrust Chinese women into the global limelight and sparked considerable interest, not to mention controversy, with accusations of drug violations, and yet there remains a paucity of analytical literature on Chinese elite women's sport not only in China but throughout the world.
Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West, official documents and interviews with top athletes, Dong Jinxia explores the rise of the Chinese super-sportswomen and their relationship with politics, culture and society before and during the Cultural Revolution and through China's transition to a market economy. This readable work will appeal to students of sports studies, journalists and general readers fascinated by the rise of the Chinese women super-athletes.

Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future.(Book Review) : An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future.(Book Review) : An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Haiyan Lee
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Title: Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future.(Book Review)
Author: Haiyan Lee
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
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Volume: 124 Issue: 2 Page: 398(2)

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Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

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Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
Mary Kay Quinlan
Manufacturer: Oral History Association
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Title: Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992.(Book Review)
Author: Mary Kay Quinlan
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 30 Issue: 1 Page: 145(4)

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Holding up half the sky: Success stories in the economic empowerment of women

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Holding up half the sky: Success stories in the economic empowerment of women

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Holding Up Half the Sky: Women's Rights in China's Changing Economy: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hun

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Holding Up Half the Sky: Women's Rights in China's Changing Economy: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hun
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Women, Sport and Society in Modern China; Holding up More than Half the Sky (Sport in the Global Society)
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Holding up More Than Half the Sky : Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City (The Asian American Experience Ser.)

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Holding up More Than Half the Sky : Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City (The Asian American Experience Ser.)
Xiaolan Bao
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