In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion is manufactured, distributed, and marketed by Italian-Chinese ventures and how their relationships have been complicated by China's emergence as a market for luxury goods, the authors illuminate the often-overlooked processes that produce transnational capitalism—including privatization, negotiation of labor value, rearrangement of accumulation, reconfiguration of kinship, and outsourcing of inequality. In so doing, Fabricating Transnational Capitalism reveals the crucial role of the state and the shifting power relations between nations in shaping the ideas and practices of the Italian and Chinese partners.
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- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Negotiation of Value
- 1. Negotiating Managerial Labor Power and Value
- II. Historical Legacies and Revisionist Histories
- 2. The (Re-)Emergence of Entrepreneurialism in Postsocialist China
- 3. Italian Legacies of Capital and Labor
- 4. One Fashion, Two Nations: Italian-Chinese Collaborations
- III. Kinship and Transnational Capitalism
- 5. On Generation
- 6. The Reappearance and Elusiveness of Chinese Family Firms
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Four Types of Collaboration between Chinese and Italian Firms
- Notes
- References
- Index
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