Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes

Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes
ISBN-10
135021924X
ISBN-13
9781350219243
Series
Clothing Poverty
Category
Clothing trade
Pages
288
Language
English
Author
Andrew Brooks

Description

A biography of jeans -- Clothes and capital -- The shadow world of used clothing -- Cotton is the mother of poverty -- Made in China and Africa -- Second-hand Africa -- Persistent poverty -- Old clothes and new looks -- Ethical clothing myths and realities -- Fast-fashion systems.

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