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City Making and Global Labor Regimes

Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Antonella Ceccagno

    1. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  • 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

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 1-37

  3. Globalization and Its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 39-82

  4. Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 83-120

  5. The Global Low-End Fast Fashion Center

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 121-146

  6. The Mobile Regime

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 147-181

  7. The Foundations of the Mobile Regime: Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 183-214

  8. ‘My City Brought to Its Knees’: The Downscaling of Prato and the Criminalization of Chinese Entrepreneurship

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 215-255

  9. Conclusions

    • Antonella Ceccagno
    Pages 257-264

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 265-301
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Antonella Ceccagno

About the author

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.

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