City Making and Global Labor Regimes : Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

• Main Author: Ceccagno, Antonella (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Urban geography.; Labor economics.; Urban economics.; Sociology, Urban.; Emigration and immigration.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319599816
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59981-6
• Physical Description: XVII, 301 p. 4 illus. in color. online resource.

This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry-mainly owned by Chinese migrants-in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all the way to buyers in Europe. Despite this, a policy attacking Chinese...