{"product_id":"holding-up-more-than-half-xiaolan-bao-9780252073502","title":"Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, 20,000 Chinese-American garment workers--most of them women--went on strike in New York City. Every Chinese garment industry employer in the city soon signed a union contract. The successful action reflected the ways women's changing positions within their families and within the workplace galvanized them to stand up for themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXiaolan Bao's now-classic study 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. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, Bao blends the poignant personal stories of Chinese immigrant workers with the interwoven history of the garment industry and the city's Chinese community. Bao shows how the high rate of married women employed outside the home profoundly transformed family culture and with it the image and empowerment of Chinese American women. At the same time, she offers a complex and subtle discussion of the interplay of ethnic and class factors within New York's garment industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassionately told and prodigiously documented, \u003ci\u003eHolding Up More Than Half the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e examines the journey of a community's women through an era of change in the home, on the shop floor, and walking the picket line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xiaolan Bao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252073509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252073502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.04w x 0.98d","brand":"Xiaolan Bao","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46806932947199,"sku":"9780252073502","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d89cc903-8082-4f1d-b401-cab5508253e2.jpg?v=1745378105","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/holding-up-more-than-half-xiaolan-bao-9780252073502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}