Andrew Brooks

Clothing Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling?

Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe.

In this new and updated edition, Brooks retraces his steps to look at the fashion industry today, and considers how, if at all, the industry has changed in response to mounting consumer pressure for more ethical clothing. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London's vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood's ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786997388
• Artikelnr.: 57903619

Autorenporträt

Andrew Brooks is a lecturer in development geography at King's College London. His research examines connections between spaces of production and places of consumption, and particularly the geographies of economic and social change in Africa. Fieldwork has taken him to India, Papua New Guinea and across Africa. Research in Africa has included extensive investigations of markets and politics in Malawi and Mozambique as well as Chinese investment in Zambia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition Introduction 1. A biography of jeans 2.
Clothes and capital 3. The shadow world of used clothing 4. Cotton is the
mother of poverty 5. Made in China and Africa 6. Second-hand Africa 7.
Persistent poverty 8. Old clothes and new looks 9. Ethical clothing myths
and realities 10. Fast-fashion