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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ceccagno, Antonella (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319599816
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-59981-6
Physical DescriptionXVII, 301 p. 4 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Globalization and its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry
  • 3. The Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato
  • 4. The Global Low-End Fashion Center
  • 5. The Mobile Regime
  • 6. The Foundations of the Mobile Regime: Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace
  • 7. "My City Brought to its Knees": The Downscaling of Prato and the Criminalization of Chinese Entrepreneurship
  • 8. Conclusions.

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