Holding Up More Than Half the SkyIn 1982, 20,000 Chinese American garment workersmost of them womenwent on strike in New York City. Every Chinese garment industry employer in the city soon signed a union contract. The successful action reflected the ways women's changing positions within their families and within the workplace galvanized them to stand up for themselves. Xiaolan Bao's now classic study penetrates to the heart of Chinese American society to explain how this militancy