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 short fashion industry―principally owned by Chinese migrants―in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has transform the middle of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all of the solution to buyers in Europe. Regardless of 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. In line with the writer’s 15 years of fieldwork in Prato, the book sheds light at 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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