HECOL 441
Conditions & Consequences of the Fashion Industry
Winter 2025
Topics
- Describe key characteristics, conditions and consequences of the global fashion industry as a social, political, and economic system
- Assess how globalization, capitalism, trade policy and regulation processes shape the contemporary fashion industry and its consequences
- Contemplate the ethical, political, economic and moral conditions of global fashion
- Introductions
Readings
- Nascimento, Joana (2023). Working the Fabric: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry. Berghahn Books
- Benzecry, Claudio E (2022). The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry. Chicago (III.): The University of Chicago Press
- Aspers, Patrik. 2010. Orderly Fashion: A - Chapter 1: Garment Sellers in Consumer Sociology of Markets Markets
- Appelbaum, Richard P., and Nelson Read: Lichtenstein. 2016. Achieving Workers’ Rights - Chapter 1: Outsourcing Horror: Why in the Global Economy. Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist by Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer (17-31)
- Lynch, Catrin. 2016. Juki Girls, Good Girls: - Chapter 1: Globalization, Gender & Labour Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's (21-50) Global Garment
- Sylvanus, Nina. 2016. Patterns in Circulation: Read:
- Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa. - Chapter 1: Fashioning the Body: Dressing Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago the Public Self Press - Chapter 2: Archival Prints: Alternate Histories of Taste and Circulation
- Nascimento, Joana. 2023. WORKING THE FABRIC: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Read: Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry - Chapter 1. Where Harris Tweed Is Made: ‘Remoteness,’ Resourcefulness and Island Life (34-59)
- Stories, Productive Encounters and Local Experiences of a Global Industry (60-83)
- Uncertainty, Anticipation and Personal Narratives (115-146)
- Fashion, Ethics, and Property. - Chapter 2: The Asian Copycat (53 - 76)
- Benzecry, Claudio E. 2022. The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry. Read: Chicago (III.): The University of Chicago Press. - Preface: The Frailty of Commodity Chains
- Making, Uniqueness, and Standardization
- Benzecry, Claudio E. 2022. The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry. Read: Chicago (III.): The University of Chicago Press. - Chapter 5: Cinderella on the Pearl River Delta: Who Has the Power to Translate?
- Mears, Ashley (2011). Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. University of Read California Press. - Chapter Two: Economics of the Catwalk (p. 27 - 70)
Winter 2025
Topics
- Describe key characteristics, conditions and consequences of the global fashion industry as a social, political, and economic system
- Assess how globalization, capitalism, trade policy and regulation processes shape the contemporary fashion industry and its consequences
- Contemplate the ethical, political, economic and moral conditions of global fashion
- Introductions
Readings
- Nascimento, Joana (2023). Working the Fabric: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry. Berghahn Books
- Benzecry, Claudio E (2022). The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry. Chicago (III.): The University of Chicago Press
- Aspers, Patrik. 2010. Orderly Fashion: A - Chapter 1: Garment Sellers in Consumer Sociology of Markets Markets
- Appelbaum, Richard P., and Nelson Read: Lichtenstein. 2016. Achieving Workers’ Rights - Chapter 1: Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel in the Global Economy. Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist by Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer (17-31)
- Lynch, Catrin. 2016. Juki Girls, Good Girls: - Chapter 1: Globalization, Gender & Labour Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's (21-50) Global Garment Industry
- Sylvanus, Nina. 2016. Patterns in Circulation: Read:
- Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa. - Chapter 1: Fashioning the Body: Dressing the Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Public Self Press - Chapter 2: Archival Prints: Alternate Histories of Taste and Circulation
- Nascimento, Joana. 2023. WORKING THE FABRIC: Resourcefulness, Belonging and Read: Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry - Chapter 1. Where Harris Tweed Is Made: ‘Remoteness,’ Resourcefulness and Island Life (34-59)
- Stories, Productive Encounters and Local Experiences of a Global Industry (60-83)
- Uncertainty, Anticipation and Personal Narratives (115-146)
- Fashion, Ethics, and Property. - Chapter 2: The Asian Copycat (53 - 76)
- Benzecry, Claudio E. 2022. The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry. Read: Chicago (III.): The University of Chicago - Preface: The Frailty of Commodity Chains Press. - Chapter 1: From Head to Toe
- Benzecry, Claudio E. 2022. The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry. Read: Chicago (III.): The University of Chicago - Chapter 5: Cinderella on the Pearl River Press. Delta: Who Has the Power to Translate?
- Mears, Ashley (2011). Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. University of Read California Press. - Chapter Two: Economics of the Catwalk (p. 27 - 70)
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
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