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This 5 page paper examines workers in the garment industry, primarily in New York and California. Problems faced by immigrant groups in America are discussed. How they sometimes fight back is included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of immigration saw Italians and Jews come through Ellis Island and begin to work as tailors and pants pressers. Today, there are a variety of groups working in the industry
in California and New York but today, the two primary groups are Latin and Asians. Some statistics show that people who work in a category closest to the garment worker
which is sewing machine operator are 52% Mexican, 16% Central American, 7% other Latino and 13% Asian (Katsiaficas and Torres 146). Foo in 2003 provides an estimate of 15%
Asian-either Chinese or Vietnamese-and 75% Latina women as making up the workers in the garment industry in L.A. (36). In this category, in numbers, the Latin people make up a
greater proportion of these laborers than do Asians. There is a gender divide as well, as three quarters of these workers are women (Katsiaficas and Torres 146). It
should be noted that there are different ethnic groups in different cities. In San Francisco for example, the garment industry is located in the midst of Chinatown so it is
not surprising that the workers there are primarily Chinese (Foo 36). Garment workers rank amongst the lowest paid workers in Los Angeles (Katsiaficas and Torres 146). How much money
do they earn? The typical Mexican female who works in the apparel industry will early approximately $6500 per year (Katsiaficas and Torres 149). That was in 1999. Still, the
salary is low even for that time. While the workers are exploited, there are aspects of the industry in place to relate the appearance that things are not so bad.
For example, authors write: "The piecework system encourages self-exploitation, as workers work very fast and for as many hours as possible in order to make a living. It creates the
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