Clothing Poverty

Author : Andrew Brooks
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783600691
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing Poverty written by Andrew Brooks and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An interesting and important account.’ Daily Telegraph Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London’s vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood’s ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.

Author : Andrew Brooks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783600705
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing Poverty written by Andrew Brooks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An interesting and important account.' Daily Telegraph Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London's vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood's ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.

Author : Andrew Brooks
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178699738X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing Poverty written by Andrew Brooks and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. In this new and updated edition, Brooks retraces his steps to look at the fashion industry today, and considers how, if at all, the industry has changed in response to mounting consumer pressure for more ethical clothing. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London’s vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood’s ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.

Author : Andrew Brooks
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178360686X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fast Fashion written by Andrew Brooks and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Vivienne Richmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042275
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England written by Vivienne Richmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.

Author : Cynthia E. Milton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751780
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Meanings of Poverty written by Cynthia E. Milton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context—it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism.

Author : Shiv Prakash Gupta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Dimensions of Poverty in India written by Shiv Prakash Gupta and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert J. S. Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves to Fashion written by Robert J. S. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth /div

Author : Mark R. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826780
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt written by Mark R. Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them. Mark Cohen mines the richest body of documents available on the matter: the papers of the Cairo Geniza. These documents, located in the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers situated in a medieval synagogue in Old Cairo, were preserved largely unharmed for more than nine centuries due to an ancient custom in Judaism that prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing. Based on these papers, the book provides abundant testimony about how one large and important medieval Jewish community dealt with the constant presence of poverty in its midst. Building on S. D. Goitein's Mediterranean Society and inspired also by research on poverty and charity in medieval and early modern Europe, it provides a clear window onto the daily lives of the poor. It also illuminates private charity, a subject that has long been elusive to the medieval historian. In addition, Cohen's work functions as a detailed case study of an important phenomenon in human history. Cohen concludes that the relatively narrow gap between the poor and rich, and the precariousness of wealth in general, combined to make charity "one of the major agglutinates of Jewish associational life" during the medieval period.

Author : Kun Yan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662473925
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty Alleviation in China written by Kun Yan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation refines the "Two Threads One Force" theoretical framework to make a basic judgment of the "China model" for poverty alleviation. It also presents the rationale and plans for responding to new challenges to achieve poverty alleviation goals, which will enhance the welfare of the people and promote social progress and national prosperity.