City Making and Global Labor Regimes

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

Unveils the criminalization of Chinese entrepreneurship in Prato, Italy Tackles 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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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.