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A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade
W. W. Norton
December 2007
On Sale: December 3, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 0393061809
EAN: 9780393061802
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the business of making and selling clothes, "Made in"
labels do precious little to convey the constellation of
treaties, countries, and people at work in the assembly of a
simple pair of jeans. In Fugitive Denim journalist Rachel
Louise Snyder reports from the far reaches of this
multi-billion-dollar industry in search of the real people
who make your clothes. From a cotton picker in Azerbaijan to
a Cambodian seamstress, a denim maker in Italy to a fashion
designer in New York, Snyder captures the human,
environmental, and political forces at work in a dizzyingly
complex and often absurd world. In a disarming and humorous
voice, she ponders questions of equity, sweatshops, and
corporate social responsibility through narratives of
individual people, making an often academic subject
accessible and compelling. Neither polemic nor prescription,
Fugitive Denim captures what it means to be at work in the
world in the twenty-first century.
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