Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion

by Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako

Book Overview

In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478000457
• ISBN13: 9781478000457
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"