City Making and Global Labor Regimes
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City Making and Global Labor Regimes

Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

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City Making and Global Labor Regimes

Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

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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 entrepreneurship has been devised and implemented in Prato. This volume analyzes said policy against the crisis of Prato's textile industry. 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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319599816
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Urban Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: Globalization and Its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry
  8. Chapter 3: Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato
  9. Chapter 4: The Global Low-End Fast Fashion Center
  10. Chapter 5: The Mobile Regime
  11. Chapter 6: The Foundations of the Mobile Regime: Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace
  12. Chapter 7: ‘My City Brought to Its Knees’: The Downscaling of Prato and the Criminalization of Chinese Entrepreneurship
  13. Chapter 8: Conclusions
  14. References
  15. Index