Unravelling the rag trade
Subtitle: immigrant entrepreneurship in seven world cities
By: edited by Jan Rath.
Contributors: Rath, Jan, 1956-
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Used clothing industry -- Case studies.; Immigrants -- Economic conditions -- Case studies.; Entrepreneurship -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: The garment industry is one of the world's largest yet there are few examinations of its importance to the global economy or the role that immigrant entrepreneurship has played. This book aims to redress the balance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Needle games: a discussion of mixed embeddedness / Jan Rath; title: Paris: a historical view / Nancy L. Green; title: London: economic differentiation and policy-making / Prodromos Panayiotopoulos (aka Mike Pany) and Marja Dreef; title: West Midlands: still managing to survive / Monder Ram, Bob Jerrard and Joy Husband; title: Amsterdam: stitched up / Stephan Raes ... [et al.]; title: New York: caught under the fashion runway / Yu Zhou; title: Miami: ethnic succession and failed restructuring / Guillermo Grenier and Alex Stepick; title: Los Angeles: wearing out their welcome / Ivan Light and Victoria D. Ojeda; title: Sewing up seven cities / Jan Rath.