by Ali Guy, Eileen Green and Maura Banim (2001)
"Relating to clothes is a fundamental experience in the lives of most Western women. Even when choice is fraught with ambivalence, clothing matters. From considerations about dressing for success, to worries about weight, through to investing particular articles of clothing with meaning bordering on the sacred, what we wear speaks volumes about personal identity - what is revealed, what is concealed, what is created. This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a wide range of women's experiences with their wardrobes and providing empirical data noticeably absent from other studies of women and dress. Navigating what is clearly a contested realm in feminist scholarship, contributors provide rich case studies of the reality of women's relationships with clothing. While on the surface concerns about fashion or dress may appear to reflect gendered patterns, in fact clothing may be used to challenge ascribed meanings about femininity."--
Elizabeth L. Cline
Evaluates the costs of low-priced clothing while tracing the author's own transformation to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a garment factory, learned to resole shoes, and shopped for local, sustainable clothing.
Simon Anholt
"In this new book, Simon Anholt, one of the world's leading branding experts, shows how the combination of branded experts and 'nation branding' can create fast-track economic development for emerging markets. Brand New Justice: the Upside of Global Branding shows how the classic wealth-building techniques of first-world countries and companies can be successfully transferred to the people and places that really need them." "Packed with case studies of second and third-world international brands and detailed advice on international brand development for companies and governments in developing countries, Brand New Justice: the Upside of Global Branding brings a radical new dimension to the pro-logo/no-logo debate." "Brand New Justice: the Upside of Global Branding is essential reading for businesses and governments in emerging countries, for people in the international aid sector, for marketers seeking worthwhile applications for their skills, and for anyone who is interested in practical solutions to world poverty."--Jacket.
Frances Cairncross
Examines the ways in which advances in telecommunication will change the way companies do business, governments are run, and families and friends interact.
Katinka Bijlsma-Frankem, Rosalinde Klein Woolthuis
"This book challenges the current thinking on trust largely based on studies in stable contexts, by presenting new empirical studies of trust and trust building in a number of less stable, less institutionalized settings. These contexts are gaining in prominence given the globalization and virtualization of organizational relations, development of high velocity markets, and the growing importance of intangible resources."--Jacket.