ABSTRACT
This book explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism. It examines the inequalities and injustices that this relationship embodies and engenders within the interconnected domains of production, consumption, labour, and environmental ethics. It also considers national and transnational ways of evading, resisting, and dismantling those inequalities and injustices.
An accessible and compelling read, Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, sociology, politics, cultural studies, and all those interested in deconstructing the inequalities that exist in the fashion industry globally.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|18 pages
Ethno-racial capitalism in contemporary fashion
Forced labour and the Uyghur crisis
chapter 4|18 pages
The sociality of decolonisation
Making fashion, heritage, and cultural sustainability in Vietnam
chapter 6|14 pages
From stylistic capital to stylistic inequalities
What style brings to individuals, and what it can take from them
chapter 7|29 pages
The myth of trickle-down
How fashions do (not) spread in European fashion magazines, and what this tells us about power and status in the global fashion system
chapter 8|19 pages
From paca to vintage clothing
Inequality and border among resellers in Monterrey, Mexico
