City Making and Global Labor Regimes: Chinese Immigrants and Italy's Fast Fashion Industry by Antonella Ceccagno
This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industrymainly owned by Chinese migrantsin 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 Pratos textile industry. Based on the authors 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.