Fugitive DenimFugitive Denim
a Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade
Title rated 2 out of 5 stars, based on 2 ratings(2 ratings)
Book, 2008
Current format, Book, 2008, 1st ed, All copies in use.Book, 2008
Current format, Book, 2008, 1st ed, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsA human-scale view of global trade offers insight into the complex roles played by treaties, international affairs, and labor in the assembly of a pair of jeans.
A human-scale view of global trade as it is reflected by the multi-billion-dollar clothing industry offers insight into the complex roles played by treaties, international affairs, and labor in the assembly of an everyday pair of jeans. 13,000 first printing.
In the business of making and selling clothes, “Made in” labels do precious little to convey the constellation of treaties, countries, and people at work in the assembly of a simple pair of jeans. In Fugitive Denim journalist Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of this multi-billion-dollar industry in search of the real people who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion designer in New York, Snyder captures the human, environmental, and political forces at work in a dizzyingly complex and often absurd world. In a disarming and humorous voice, she ponders questions of equity, sweatshops, and corporate social responsibility through narratives of individual people, making an often academic subject accessible and compelling. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to be at work in the world in the twenty-first century.
From Azerbaijan to New York City, a human-scale view of global trade.
Fugitive DenimFugitive Denim
A human-scale view of global trade as it is reflected by the multi-billion-dollar clothing industry offers insight into the complex roles played by treaties, international affairs, and labor in the assembly of an everyday pair of jeans. 13,000 first printing.
In the business of making and selling clothes, “Made in” labels do precious little to convey the constellation of treaties, countries, and people at work in the assembly of a simple pair of jeans. In Fugitive Denim journalist Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of this multi-billion-dollar industry in search of the real people who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion designer in New York, Snyder captures the human, environmental, and political forces at work in a dizzyingly complex and often absurd world. In a disarming and humorous voice, she ponders questions of equity, sweatshops, and corporate social responsibility through narratives of individual people, making an often academic subject accessible and compelling. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to be at work in the world in the twenty-first century.
From Azerbaijan to New York City, a human-scale view of global trade.
Fugitive DenimFugitive Denim
Title availability
About
Subject and genre
Details
Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
Opinion
More from the community
Community lists featuring this title
There are no community lists featuring this title
Community contributions
There are no quotations from this title
There are no quotations from this title
From the community