Sewing Women is a book that is all about the garment factories located in New York City. Chapters 1-4 of this book focused mostly on the differences between sweatshops of two different Asian groups, the Chinese and the Koreans. It was extremely fascinating to see how just one tiny difference between the races changed the entire way the shop was run. The Chinese owned garment shops were more family oriented. The workers would be more comfortable around one another and even two their owners. The workers were mostly women, so when they couldn’t find a place to drop off their kids, they would bring their children to work in the factory with them.

The Korean garment shops were a different story. The Korean garment shops were not just made out of Korean workers, but included Hispanic workers as well.  These shops ran in a more chain-like fashion. While the Chinese garment shop workers were paid by each completed piece they made, the Korean garment shop workers were paid on hourly rates. These workers did not know their owners as well as some Chinese shop workers had, and would just come to work and get paid.