Andrew Brooks

eBook, ePUB

Fast Fashion (eBook, ePUB)

A Cut from Clothing Poverty with Exclusive New Content

Beschreibung

Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013. Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes, Andrew Brooks stitches together the events of the Rana Plaza tragedy with the hidden world of fast fashion, providing a short but enlightening exposé of the global commodity chains which perpetuate poverty.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.93MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783606863
• Artikelnr.: 50060438