Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor (Free Press, 1991); Goldstein, Gabriel, and Elizabeth Greenberg, eds. A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 (2012) its origins in the nineteenth-century “rag trade” of Jewish tailors, cutters, pressers, peddlers, and shopkeepers Green, Nancy L. Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York (Duke University Press, 1997); Helfgott, Roy B. "Women's and Children's Apparel," in Max Hall, ed. Made in New York: Case Studies in Metropolitan Manufacturing, (Harvard University Press, 1959) Parment, Robert Parmet, The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement (New York University Press, 2005). Soyer, Daniel, ed. A Coat of Many Colors: Immigration, Globalism, and Reform in the New York City Garment Industry (Fordham University Press, 2005) Tyler, Gus. Look for the Union Label: A History of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (M. E. Sharpe, 1995) Waldinger, Roger D. Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York's Garment Trades'' (New York University Press, 1986) External links New York City Visitor Guide - Garment District Emporis - Garment District Garment districts Neighborhoods in Manhattan Midtown Manhattan