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Contributors Daniel Soyer is associate professor of history at Fordham University in New York. In 1996–97 he was a fellow of the Sweatshop Project, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Institute sponsored by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and UNITE! His book Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, –, (Harvard University Press, 1997) was co-winner of the Saul Viener Prize of the American Jewish Historical Society. Nancy L. Green is professor at the Centre de Recherches Historiques at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her latest books include Ready-to-wear and Ready-to-work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York (Duke University Press, 1997) and (as editor) Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora (University of California Press, 1998). Florence Palpacuer is professor of business strategy at the University of Montpellier I, France. She previously worked as a researcher at the International Institute for Labour Studies in Geneva, where she studied changing forms of industrial organization in global industries. In 1992–95 she was a research fellow at Columbia University in New York, where she conducted an in-depth case study of the New York garment industry to complete her Ph.D. dissertation. She graduated in business administration from the University of Montpellier I in 1996. Xiaolan Bao is professor of history at California State University at Long Beach. In 1997–98 she was a fellow of the Sweatshop Project, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Institute sponsored by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and UNITE! Her book, Holding Up More than Half 274 Contributors the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, –, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2001 as part of its series on the Asian American Experience. Hadassa Kosak is associate professor of history at Yeshiva University in New York. She is the author of Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, –, which appeared in 2000 in the series on American labor history published by the State University of New York Press. Nancy C. Carnevale is assistant professor of history at Montclair State University in New Jersey. In 1997–98 she was a fellow of the Sweatshop Project, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Institute sponsored by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and UNITE! Ramona Hernández is associate professor of sociology at City College of New York and director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. She is author of The Mobility of Labor under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States (Columbia University Press, 2002), winner of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2002. She is coauthor (with Silvio Torres-Saillant) of The Dominican Americans (Greenwood Press, 1998). Margaret M. Chin is assistant professor of sociology at Hunter College. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Junior Faculty Award for 2004–05 to continue her study of Chinatown after September 11. Her chapter, ‘‘Moving On: Chinatown Garment Workers after 9/11,’’ is forthcoming in Wounded City, edited by Nancy Foner (Russell Sage Foundation Press); her book Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Eileen Boris is Hull Professor of Women’s Studies in the Women’s Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author or editor of numerous books, including Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 1994), which won the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, and (with Elisabeth Prügl) Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (Routledge, 1996). She is currently writing a history of home health care work, with New York City as one focus. ...
