Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology, economics and anthropology, and cuts to the core of understanding what markets are, how they function, and the role they play in social life.
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology, economics and...
For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintained in the different interconnected consumer, producer, and credit markets of the global fashion industry. From retailers in Sweden and the United Kingdom to producers in India and Turkey, Patrik Aspers focuses on branded garment retailers--chains such as Gap, H&M, Old Navy, Topshop, and Zara. Aspers investigates these retailers'...
For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to inform...
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such as advertising, modelling, art, music and more, can be viewed. The main thrust of this groundbreaking book, is in developing a theory for these cultural markets, characterized by insecurity, and where status and aesthetic diversity generate order and price differentiation. In these industries,...
Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led soc...
