Unpacking the Fashion Industry

First Published in 1990 Unpacking the Fashion Industry spotlights a side of the industry the consumer never sees. What is the fashion clothing industry really like? What lies behind the glamour of the cat-walks and the glossy magazines? Annie Phizacklea focuses on the small firm sector of fashionwear production, based predominantly on ethnic entrepreneurship and cheap female labour and analyses the complex interaction of gender, class and racism in this sector of the industry. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of sociology, gender studies and social anthropology.

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