Unpacking the Fashion Industry

First Published in 1990 Unpacking the Fashion Industry spotlights a side of the industry the consumer never sees. Annie Phizacklea focuses on the small firm sector of fashionwear production, and analyses the complex interaction of gender, class and racism in this sector of the industry.

Annie Phizacklea

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