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

City Making and Global Labor Regimes Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry / by Antonella Ceccagno.

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Urban economics.
Emigration and immigration.
Urban geography.
Labor economics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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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