This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the kind of export commodities that would enable them to import English textiles in the quantities they required. This study examines the promotion of domestic textile manufacture from the level of the Massachusetts legislature down to the way in which individual communities organized individual productive efforts. Although other historians...

• Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.
• Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.
• Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in...

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• Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.
• Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.
• Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in...

Fashion is bound up with promoting the "new," concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favored styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on next season. If fashion is defined, in part, by the incessant requirement to be "new," this requirement means aesthetic qualities are always in motion and, therefore, unstable. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be calculated--i.e., selected, distributed and sold--by those...

The processes of modern clothing manufacture are explained here, alongside the equipment used. Latest developments are described as well as established methods. Manual, mechanised and automated processes are explained and their comparative advantages for certain purposes are considered as well as the applications of computer control and robotics.

The Fourth Edition has been updated throughout to reflect advances in technology and a new chapter is now devoted to colour management and colour technology (including a colour section for the first time). There is a new chapter on...

Garment assembly is fundamental to the creation of designs.

This guide provides fashion students and designers with the knowledge of the techniques and components essential to the assembly of sewn products.

Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion Industry develops your understanding of which stitch and seam types to select for particular fabrics and garments. As well as the knowledge to construct a range of basic techniques to assemble entire garments using the correct components.

It can be difficult to master the skills of garment assembly by reading...