Industrial and Regional Restructuring in the US Women's Dress Industry, 1963 - 92

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4138744
AutoresJürgen Essletzbichler (0000-0002-2680-3691, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524, USA, autor de correspondencia), David L Rigby (0000-0002-8555-1308, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen33
Número8
Páginas1385-1410
Fecha de publicación2001-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a3397
OpenAlexW2033554598
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas25

In this paper we explore the impacts of competition on the US women's dress industry and examine the response of that industry in the form of technological change, industrial reorganization, and regional relocation. We demonstrate that women's dress producers adopted varying strategies to cope with competitive pressure at different time periods and in different places. In the 1960s, the dress industry was characterized by two main trends: technological change and domestic relocation of plants from the US northeast to the southeast and west. From the 1970s onwards, organizational changes became increasingly important as firms in core dress-production states such as California and New York externalized growing volumes of labor-intensive work. In part, the value added of this contribution to debates about industrial restructuring lies in our use of plant-level data that allow a richer understanding of the dynamics of industrial competition

Business · Clothing · Clothing industry · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Political science · Relocation · Restructuring · Technological change · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Fashion and Cultural Textiles