Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies

ISBN-13: 9781032192376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 228 str.

Karen Tranberg Hansen; Jennifer Le Zotte

Opis

Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this book examines historical and contemporary changes in secondhand economies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Changing Secondhand Economies  1. Domestic textiles and country house sales in Georgian England  2. ‘Fence-ing lessons’: child junkers and the commodification of scrap in the long nineteenth century  3. Jews, second-hand trade and upward economic mobility: Introducing the ready-to-wear business in industrializing Helsinki, 1880–1930  4. Shylocks to superheroes: Jewish scrap dealers in Anglo-American popular culture  5. The mass consumption of refashioned clothes: Re-dyed kimono in post war Japan  6. The work of shopping: Resellers and the informal economy at the goodwill bins  7. Valuation in action: Ethnography of an American thrift store  8. History as business: Changing dynamics of retailing in Gothenburg’s second-hand market  9. Second-hand vehicle markets in West Africa: A source of regional disintegration, trade informality and welfare losses  10. Urban prototypes: Growing local circular cloth economies