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OverviewIn the business of making and selling clothes, ?Made in? labels do precious little to convey the constellation of treaties, countries, and people at work in the assembly of a simple pair of jeans. In Fugitive Denim journalist Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of this multi-billion-dollar industry in search of the real people who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion designer in New York, Snyder captures the human, environmental, and political forces at work in a dizzyingly complex and often absurd world. In a disarming and humorous voice, she ponders questions of equity, sweatshops, and corporate social responsibility through narratives of individual people, making an often academic subject accessible and compelling. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to be at work in the world in the twenty-first century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Louise SnyderPublisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: WW Norton & Co Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780393335422ISBN 10: 0393335429 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 21 April 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"""A thoughtful, ultimately hopeful look at how our choices about something as mundane as jeans can alter the lives of people 10,000 miles away."" -- Fast Company ""Contains a number of surprises about the most ubiquitous of clothes... Ultimately Snyder gets readers to think about the real costs of clothing, and it's likely they won't look at $30 or $200 jeans the same way again."" -- Kathryn Masterson - Chicago Tribune" ...an accessible insight into the intricate connections underlying global economies and the limitless desires of the western consumer. Royce Mahawatte, Financial Times ...Snyder is a fine reporter who, uncommonly, does her best listening when her interviewees go off-topic... New Statesman ...a highly pertinent view of the fashion world today... may well point to the future of fashion writing... The Guardian Author InformationRachel Louise Snyder’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, and the New Republic, and on public radio’s “This American Life” and “Marketplace.” She lives in Cambodia and in Chicago, Illinois. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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