Lisa Rofel

Fabricating Transnational Capitalism

A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion is manufactured, distributed, and marketed by Italian-Chinese ventures and how their relationships have been complicated by China's emergence as a market for luxury goods, the authors illuminate the often-overlooked processes that produce transnational capitalism-including privatization, negotiation of labor value, rearrangement of accumulation, reconfiguration of kinship, and outsourcing of inequality. In so doing, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism reveals the crucial role of the state and the shifting power relations between nations in shaping the ideas and practices of the Italian and Chinese partners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000457
• ISBN-10: 1478000457
• Artikelnr.: 51982629

Autorenporträt

Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Robert J. Foster  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
I. The Negotiation of Value  35
1. Negotiating Managerial Labor Power and Value / Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J.
Yanagisako  43
II. Historical Legacies and Revisionist Histories  109
2. The (Re-)Emergence of Entrepreneurialism in Postsocialist China / Lisa
Rofel  119
3. Italian Legacies of Capital and Labor / Sylvia Yanagisako  161
4. One Fashion, Two Nations: Italian-Chinese Collaborations / Simona Segre
Reinach  190
III. Kinship and Transnational Capitalism  217
5. On Generation / Sylvia Yanagisako  227
6. The Reappearance and Elusiveness of Chinese Family Firms / Lisa Rofel 
264
Conclusion  303
Appendix: Four Types of Collaboration between Chinese and Italian Firms 
313
Notes  319
References  345
Index  363