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Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries
Stories from a Globe-Spanning History
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eBook - ePub
Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries
Stories from a Globe-Spanning History
About this book
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2025
With contributions from leading experts, this edited collection presents original research on the skills brought by immigrant communities to the textile and fashion industries, from the early modern to postmodern periods in Asia and the Islamic World, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Manufacturing of textiles and apparel is arduous work, which historically depended on skilled artisans, inexpensive labor, and the introduction of labor-saving technology. Immigrant communities supplied much of the work force, bringing their own skill sets to new locations, leading to the development of new manufacturing centers and an increase in both production and technical expertise. Throughout the volume, the role of migration and immigrant involvement in manufacturing is also examined in relation to trade, politics, and socio-religious circumstances prompting relocation.
Deconstructing the question of provenance by examining the cultural identity of migrant populations, the research brings to light ongoing dilemmas and practices of diaspora communities. By analyzing material, mythical, and technical aspects of textile and apparel production, contributors create a new narrative about textile- and garment-making as a collective endeavor, requiring diversity of skill and methodology to thrive.
With contributions from leading experts, this edited collection presents original research on the skills brought by immigrant communities to the textile and fashion industries, from the early modern to postmodern periods in Asia and the Islamic World, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Manufacturing of textiles and apparel is arduous work, which historically depended on skilled artisans, inexpensive labor, and the introduction of labor-saving technology. Immigrant communities supplied much of the work force, bringing their own skill sets to new locations, leading to the development of new manufacturing centers and an increase in both production and technical expertise. Throughout the volume, the role of migration and immigrant involvement in manufacturing is also examined in relation to trade, politics, and socio-religious circumstances prompting relocation.
Deconstructing the question of provenance by examining the cultural identity of migrant populations, the research brings to light ongoing dilemmas and practices of diaspora communities. By analyzing material, mythical, and technical aspects of textile and apparel production, contributors create a new narrative about textile- and garment-making as a collective endeavor, requiring diversity of skill and methodology to thrive.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Introduction
- Introduction
- 1 A Brief History of Textile Production and Trade
- Part Two Imported Myths, Imported Moths: Silk Production Across Asia
- 2 Histories of Silken Skills: Immigrant Sericulturalists in Early Modern South Asia
- 3 Prophets and Caterpillars: The Story of Job and the Social Mobility of Silk Workers and Weavers in the Early Modern Islamic World
- Appendix to Chapter 3: The Origin Stories of Silk and the Abrahamic Prophet Job
- Part Three Imported Skills: Weaving Specialists Go Global
- 4 Master Craftsmen in Migration: Safavid Silk Weavers in Mughal India
- 5 Weaving Andean Textiles on Islamic Looms: The Importation of Skilled Weavers in the Colonial Andes
- Appendix to Chapter 5: A Brief History of the Loom
- Part Four Imported Labor: Enslaved and Immigrant Workers in America
- 6 Clothing the Black Body in Slavery: Stolen Lives and Imported Labor
- 7 How the Other Half Works: Perceptions and Realities of Immigrant Labor in the New York Apparel Industry
- Part Five Imported Culture: Textile as Tradition in the Diaspora
- 8 Silk Weaving in the Cambodian Refugee Crisis and Diaspora: Displaced Practice and Identities in the Post-Khmer Rouge Era
- 9 The Evolution of an Identity: Tracing the Trajectory of Sindhi Ajrak across the India–Pakistan Border
- Conclusion
- Glossary of Textile Terms
- References
- Index
- Plate
- Copyright