In Precarious Accumulation, Nellie Chu tells the story of the migrant entrepreneurs at the heart of Guangzhou’s fast fashion industry—one of the world’s most dynamic hubs of transnational commodity production. Chu shows how rural Chinese migrants, West African traders, and South Korean jobbers navigate the high-speed, low-margin world of just-in-time garment production that fue...(展开全部)

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss...(展开全部)

Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination; Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan; and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club and a coeditor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss...(展开全部)

迈克尔·R·所罗门，美国圣约瑟夫大学人类科学学院消费者研究中心教授，致力于消费者行为和消费心理研究，在该领域做出了杰出的贡献。所罗门教授的研究兴趣包括：消费者行为与生活方式问题、网上研究方法学、产品的象征方面、时尚、装饰与形象心理学以及服务营销。 所罗门教授是行为科学/时尚文献中被引用最多的前15位学者之一，也是广告和营销领域中10个最多产的研究者之一。 南希·J·拉博尔特，哲学博士，旧金山州立大学服装设计和营销学教授，同时兼任消费者和家庭研究/营养学系主任一职，拉博尔特博士同时在南伊利诺伊斯大学、玛丽格罗夫学院和旧金山州立大学讲授时尚消费者行为和时尚营销学课程长达30多年。

迈克尔·R·所罗门，美国圣约瑟夫大学人类科学学院消费者研究中心教授，致力于消费者行为和消费心理研究，在该领域做出了杰出的贡献。所罗门教授的研究兴趣包括：消费者行为与生活方式问题、网上研究方法学、产品的象征方面、时尚、装饰与形象心理学以及服务营销。 所罗门教授是行为科学/时尚文献中被引用最多的前15位学者之一，也是广告和营销领域中10个最多产的研究者之一。 南希·J·拉博尔特，哲学博士，旧金山州立大学服装设计和营销学教授，同时兼任消费者和家庭研究/营养学系主任一职，拉博尔特博士同时在南伊利诺伊斯大学、玛丽格罗夫学院和旧金山州立大学讲授时尚消费者行为和时尚营销学课程长达30多年。

Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-...(展开全部)