1st Edition
Unpacking the Fashion Industry Gender, Racism and Class in Production
By Annie Phizacklea
Copyright 1990
130 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 1990 Unpacking the Fashion Industry spotlights a side of the industry the consumer never sees. What is the fashion clothing industry really like? What lies behind the glamour of the cat-walks and the glossy magazines? Annie Phizacklea focuses on the small firm sector of fashionwear production, based predominantly on ethnic entrepreneurship and cheap female labour and analyses... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Dress Sense: making fashion clothes in Britain today? 2. Echoes of the past? 3. The global market place 4. Old tech, new tech, no sweat? 5. The subcontracting web: who benefits? 6. Working the seam: minority women in fashionwear production Bibliography Index
Biography
Annie Phizacklea
