Milestones and Millstones

From the 1960s onwards, the clothing industry in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the European Union, experienced a deep crisis. Numerous went bankrupt and, even more so, workers lost their jobs. Imports from low wage countries started providing the bulk of retailers' collections.

Otto N. Larsen

1. Quest for Inclusion, 2. Research Allocations and Status Indicators, 3. The 1950s: Convergence and Inchmeal Expansion,4. The 1960s: Commitment to Basic, Tilt toward Applied, 5. The 1970s: Relevance, RANN, Reorganization, 6. The 1980s: Threat, Unity, Priorities, 7. The 1990s: Continuities in Contested Legitimacy, 8. From Hollow to Endless Frontiers.