| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Prologue; 1.2 Issues: Prato and Its Migrants in a Changing World; 1.3 Conceptual Frameworks; 1.3.1 Heterogeneity of the Global; 1.3.2 The Methodological Approach to the Global-Local Nexus; 1.3.3 The Nation State's Role in Dynamics Involving the Global and the Local; 1.3.4 Locating Cities and Migrants; 1.3.5 Diversity of Labor Within a Diverse Capitalism; 1.3.6 A Chinese Labor Model?; 1.4 Critique of the Empiricist Approach to Fieldwork; 1.5 A Unique Field; 1.5.1 The Years 1994-2007 |
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1.5.2 More Recent Fieldwork1.6 Constructing Commonalities: My Positionality as a Researcher and a Service Provider; 1.7 The Complacent Ethnographer; 1.8 Chapter Outlines; 1.9 Prato and the Italian Fashion Industry in an Era of Fierce International Competition; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Globalization and Its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry; 2.1 Prologue; 2.2 The Impact of Global Forces; 2.3 Small Firms in Industrial Clusters as a National Policy; 2.4 The Italian Industrial Districts as an Exemplary Production Mode; 2.5 Limits of the District Model in the Global Era |
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2.6 Global Shifts in the Fashion Industry2.6.1 China as a Powerful Global Competitor; 2.6.2 Changes in the Distribution Order; 2.6.3 The Emergence of Fast Fashion; 2.7 The Restructuring of the Value Chain by Offshoring; 2.8 The Restructuring of the Value Chain by Incorporation of Migrant Work; 2.9 Implications of Global Shifts in the Fashion Industry; 2.10 The Italian Regime of Mobility; 2.11 The Adverse Effects of Amnesties; 2.12 Chinese Migration to Europe; 2.13 Occupational Roles for Migrants from Different Home Areas in China; 2.14 Conclusions; Notes; References |
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Chapter 3: Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato3.1 Prato: A Global Structure of Opportunity; 3.2 A New Migrant Workforce; 3.3 Tropes of Entrepreneurship; 3.4 Chinese Migrants in Italian Fashion Districts; 3.5 The Opportunity Structure in Prato's Clothing Industry; 3.6 The Real Estate Market; 3.7 Mixité and Urban Restructuring; 3.8 Effects of the Italian Regimes of Mobility on the Migrants' Pathway of Emplacement; 3.9 Off the Books Practices and Irregularities; 3.10 Fierce Competition on Price; 3.11 Issues of Embeddedness |
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3.12 Further Benefits for Manufacturers in the Italian Fashion Industry3.13 Chinese Migrants Replace Natives as Contractors; 3.14 Transnational Traders; 3.15 Subsistence Entrepreneurs; 3.16 Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Global Low-End Fast Fashion Center; 4.1 Prologue; 4.2 Prato as the Focal Point of Global Networks; 4.3 Newly Established Final-Good Entrepreneurs; 4.4 The Growing Role of Fast Fashion in the Local Economy; 4.5 Drivers of the Chinese Fast Fashion Center's Success; 4.5.1 Natives Did Not Foresee Such a Spectacular Success |
| Summary |
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 ensuing 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.-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
4.5.2 Migrants' New Resources and Transnational Networks |
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Print version record |
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Fashion -- Italy
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Fashion
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Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319599816 |
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331959981X |
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