City Making and Global Labor Regimes

Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

AvAntonella Ceccagno

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Based on the author’s 15 years of fieldwork in Prato, the book sheds light on the entangled processes of city making and the restructuring processes linked to capital accumulation by tackling issues of governance, territory, migration, division of labor, labor mobility, housing, and human rights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-18
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:416 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:301
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319867519

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Antonella Ceccagno is Professor of Chinese Linguistics and East Asian Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy. For more than ten years she worked as Managing and Research Director of the Center for Immigration Research and Services in Prato, Italy.

Innehållsförteckning

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.