Stacy Fahrenthold examines how Arab workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation. She writes women workers—the majority of Syrian garment workers—back into US labor history. She also situates the rise of Syrian American industrial elites, who exerted supply chain power to combat labor uprisings, resist unionization, and stake claim to the global textile industry. Critiquing the hegemony of the Syrian peddler in histories of this diaspora, Unmentionables introduces alternative narrators: union activists who led street demonstrations, women garment workers who shut down kimono factories, child laborers who threw snowballs at police, and the diasporic merchant capitalists who contended with all of them.
Stacy Fahrenthold examines how Arab workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation. She writes women workers—the majority of Syrian garment workers—back into US labor history. She also situates the rise of Syrian American industrial elites, who exerted supply chain power to combat labor uprisings, resist unionization, and stake claim to the global textile industry. Critiquing the hegemony of the Syrian peddler in histories of this diaspora, Unmentionables introduces alternative narrators: union activists who led street demonstrations, women garment workers who shut down kimono factories, child laborers who threw snowballs at police, and the diasporic merchant capitalists who contended with all of them.
![Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class](http://img.images-bn.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.11.4)
Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
306![Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class](http://img.images-bn.com/static/redesign/srcs/images/grey-box.png?v11.11.4)
Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
306Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781503638082 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 12/03/2024 |
Series: | Worlding the Middle East |
Pages: | 306 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d) |