EH.N: ANN: Bibliography on the Garment Industry

[Roger Horowitz]

Leon Levy Foundation Announces Bibliography on the Garment Industry

Entrepreneurship in the garment industry - particularly in its golden 
age, from 1860 to 1975 - was a crucial element not only in the 
history of New York City's economy (and the U.S. economy), but also 
in its social history and the rise of the Jewish middle class. Yet 
while the labor side of this rich industrial history has been well 
told, surprisingly little has been written about the business side.

To encourage scholarship in the understudied areas of the garment 
industry, the Leon Levy Foundation supported a fellowship at the 
Graduate Center of City University of New York with the goal of 
preparing a comprehensive baseline bibliography. The bibliography, 
primarily intended for use by business historians interested in 
pursuing scholarship in this fertile field, is now complete. It 
includes primary and secondary sources on traditional business 
concerns such as manufacturing, retail, entrepreneurship and 
management as well as related topics like immigration, fashion, 
labor, and gender.

The bibliography, part of the Leon Levy Foundation's Garment Industry 
History Initiative, is available as a PDF on the website of the 
Foundation 
(http://www.leonlevyfoundation.org/images/GarmentIndBibliog290FDC.pdf) 
and on the website of the Gotham Center for New York City History, 
GC-CUNY (http://www.gothamcenter.org/garment_bibliography.pdf).

The Leon Levy Foundation, founded in 2004, is a private, 
not-for-profit foundation created from the estate of Leon Levy, a 
legendary investor with a longstanding commitment to philanthropy. 
The Foundation's overarching goal is to continue the tradition of 
humanism characteristic of Mr. Levy by supporting scholarship at the 
highest level, ultimately advancing knowledge and improving the lives 
of individuals and society at large.

Dr. Roger Horowitz
Associate Director
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Hagley Museum and Library
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807

rh at udel.edu
302-658-2400, ext. 244
302-655-3188 (fax)