City Making and Global Labor Regimes

Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86751-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Unveils the criminalization of Chinese entrepreneurship in Prato, ItalyTackles issues of labor and outsourcing of social reproduction
Offers a new conceptualization on the drastic reconfiguration of production in the Chinese network of suppliers in the fast fashion industry

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ceccagno, Antonella

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.