Deindustrialisation, regeneration, mobilisation…and human drama in capitalist economies

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^1. In the middle of the nineteenth century, textiles represented 60% of manufacturing industries in England and the cotton industry represented two-third of the industrial added value in the USA. See Perotti-Reille, Le textile habillement.

^2. Ibid., 5.

^3.Perotti-Reille, Le textile habillement.

^4.Chrisafis, “Bra Wars Raise Temperature” and Lénack, “LeJaby, une histoire particulière.”

^5.http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2013/05/14/benetton-va-signer-l-accord-pour-la-securite-des-usines-au-bangladesh_3204357_3216.html,http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2013/05/23/textile-accord-pour-controler-les-conditions-de-travail-au-bangladesh_3416644_3216.html,http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/05/14/le-bangladesh-l-outsider-du-textile_3173837_3234.html.

^6.Perotti-Reille, Le textile habillement.

^7.http://www.vosgesterretextile.fr/evenementphoto_p46-vous_allez_flasher_sur_moi.html.

^8.Kirk, Contrepois, and Jefferys, Cultures in Transition.

^9. Dominique and Gildas, “Désindustrialisation.”

^10.Euratex, Textile and Clothing Industries.

^11.Kirk, Contrepois, and Jefferys, Cultures in Transition.

^12.http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?article980http://www.onpes.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Bontout.pdf.

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Sylvie Contrepois

Sylvie Contrepois is a reader in European employment relations at the London Metropolitan University (London) and a member of the Centre de REcherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris, CRESPPA-CSU (CNRS – Paris VIII and Paris X universities). Her work, conducted in a socio-historical perspective, focuses on French trade unions and social identities.