Fugitive Denim

Informationen zum Autor Rachel 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. Klappentext Rachel Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of the multi-billion-dollar denim industry in search of the 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 complex and often absurd world. Neither polemic nor prescription, Fugitive Denim captures what it means to work in the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung “A fascinating chronicle of the $55-billion-a-year global denim industry.” —David Futrelle, Los Angeles Times

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Louis Snyder, Rachel Louise Snyder, Snyder Rachel Louise
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2009
• EAN: 9780393335422
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33542-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, International Trade, International trade and commerce