City making and global labor regimes : Chinese immigrants and Italy's fast fashion industry

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• 1 Introduction = 1
• 1.1 Prologue = 1
• 1.2 Issues : Prato and Its Migrants in a Changing World = 1
• 1.3 Conceptual Frameworks = 6
• 1.4 Critique of the Empiricist Approach to Fieldwork = 17
• 1.5 A Unique Field = 19
• 1.6 Constructing Commonalities : My Positionality as a Researcher and a Service Provider = 21
• 1.7 The Complacent Ethnographer = 23
• 1.8 Chapter Outlines = 25
• 1.9 Prato and the Italian Fashion Industry in an Era of Fierce International Competition = 30
• References = 32
• 2 Globalization and Its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry = 39
• 2.1 Prologue = 39
• 2.2 The Impact of Global Forces = 40
• 2.3 Small Firms in Industrial Clusters as a National Policy = 44
• 2.4 The Italian Industrial Districts as an Exemplary Production Mode = 46
• 2.5 Limits of the District Model in the Global Era = 49
• 2.6 Global Shifts in the Fashion Industry = 51
• 2.7 The Restructuring of the Value Chain by Offshoring = 58
• 2.8 The Restructuring of the Value Chain by Incorporation of Migrant Work = 59
• 2.9 Implications of Global Shifts in the Fashion Industry = 61
• 2.10 The Italian Regime of Mobility = 64
• 2.11 The Adverse Effects of Amnesties = 65
• 2.12 Chinese Migration to Europe = 68
• 2.13 Occupational Roles for Migrants from Different Home Areas in China = 70
• 2.14 Conclusions = 72
• References = 76
• 3 Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato = 83
• 3.1 Prato : A Global Structure of Opportunity = 83
• 3.2 A New Migrant Workforce = 87
• 3.3 Tropes of Entrepreneurship = 88
• 3.4 Chinese Migrants in Italian Fashion Districts = 90
• 3.5 The Opportunity Structure in Prato's Clothing Industry = 91
• 3.6 The Real Estate Market = 93
• 3.7 Mixite and Urban Restructuring = 94
• 3.8 Effects of the Italian Regimes of Mobility on the Migrants' Pathway of Emplacement = 96
• 3.9 Off the Books Practices and Irregularities = 98
• 3.10 Fierce Competition on Price = 100
• 3.11 Issues of Embeddedness = 101
• 3.12 Further Benefits for Manufacturers in the Italian Fashion Industry = 102
• 3.13 Chinese Migrants Replace Natives as Contractors = 104
• 3.14 Transnational Traders = 107
• 3.15 Subsistence Entrepreneurs = 109
• 3.16 Conclusions = 111
• References = 114
• 4 The Global Low-End Fast Fashion Center = 121
• 4.1 Prologue = 121
• 4.2 Prato as the Focal Point of Global Networks = 121
• 4.3 Newly Established Final-Good Entrepreneurs = 124
• 4.4 The Growing Role of Fast Fashion in the Local Economy = 126
• 4.5 Drivers of the Chinese Fast Fashion Center's Success = 127
• 4.6 The Global Production Networks : Upstream and Downstream = 135
• 4.7 A Chinese-Only Global Production Network? = 138
• 4.8 Conclusions = 139
• References = 143
• 5 The Mobile Regime = 147
• 5.1 Prologue = 147
• 5.2 Intra- and Inter-workshop Dynamics : A New Conceptualization = 148
• 5.3 Chinese Contracting Workshops : The Wage System = 150
• 5.4 The Reconfiguration of the Productive Space = 153
• 5.5 Sleeping Arrangements = 153
• 5.6 Workers Short-Term Inter-firm Mobility = 155
• 5.7 Implications of the Space Reconfiguration = 156
• 5.8 The Chinese Mobile Regime Embodies the Principles of the Fast Fashion = 157
• 5.9 From Blocked Mobility to Extreme Inter-firm Mobility = 158
• 5.10 Workers' Frantic Territorial Mobility = 160
• 5.11 `Who Exploits Who?' The New Bargaining Power of Skilled Workers = 162
• 5.12 Desperately Seeking Skilled Workers : The Internet Job Demand and Supply = 164
• 5.13 The Shifting Balance of Power = 166
• 5.14 Implications of the Space Reconfiguration for the Workforce = 167
• 5.15 Hierarchical Power Structures in Relation to the Mobile Regime = 170
• 5.16 Employment with Italians = 171
• 5.17 Conclusions = 174
• References = 177
• 6 The Foundations of the Mobile Regime : Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace = 183
• 6.1 Prologue = 183
• 6.2 At the Basis of the Mobile Regime = 184
• 6.3 Reduced Gender Inequalities at the Workplace = 185
• 6.4 The Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction = 187
• 6.5 New Ways of Outsourcing the Care Work = 188
• 6.6 The Internet Job Supply and Demand for Childcare = 189
• 6.7 Reinforcement of Older Gender Inequalities = 192
• 6.8 The Scholarly Debate on Immigrant Entrepreneurship = 194
• 6.9 The Culturalist Approach to Chinese Migrant Incorporation in Italy = 194
• 6.10 Questioning One Explanation for the Mode of Inclusion of Wenzhouese Migrants in Italian IDs = 196
• 6.11 Against the Ethnic Entrepreneurship Model = 198
• 6.12 Ethnicity as Compression of the Workforce Diversity = 199
• 6.13 Ethnicization of the Workforce Increases Profit for the Entire Fashion Industry = 201
• 6.14 Global Patterns of Ethnicization = 202
• 6.15 An Ethnic Kindergarten? = 204
• 6.16 Conclusions = 207
• References = 209
• 7 `My City Brought to Its Knees' : The Downscaling of Prato and the Criminalization of Chinese Entrepreneurship = 215
• 7.1 Prologue = 215
• 7.2 Illuminating Ongoing Struggles = 216
• 7.3 The Disappearance of Old District Values = 218
• 7.4 The Neo-corporatist Alliance = 220
• 7.5 A New Political Coalition = 222
• 7.6 The Role of the Local Textile Entrepreneurs = 224
• 7.7 The Trade Unions = 225
• 7.8 The Crackdown and Its Unforeseen Effects = 226
• 7.9 Anthropology of Policy = 227
• 7.10 Industrial District Scholars Contribute to Shaping the City's Trajectories = 230
• 7.11 Money, Wealth and Daily Robbery = 237
• 7.12 The Offspring's Counter-Narrative = 239
• 7.13 The Legend of Entrepreneurship = 240
• 7.14 The Chinese Contribution to City Rescaling = 241
• 7.15 A Struggle over Wealth and Legitimacy = 242
• 7.16 More Recent Trends = 244
• 7.17 Conclusions = 246
• References = 249
• 8 Conclusions = 257
• 8.1 Urban Processes of Investment and Disinvestment = 258
• 8.2 Migrants Are Entangled with the Urban Restructuring = 259
• 8.3 The Reconfiguration of Working and Living Space = 259
• 8.4 The Mobile Regime in the Framework of the Multiplication of Labor = 260
• 8.5 Control over the Global Production Network and Workers' Agency = 262
• 8.6 Old and New Policies Targeted at the Chinese Enterprises = 263
• References = 264
• References = 265
• Index = 289