Global perspectives on changing secondhand economies. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen, Jennifer Le Zotte.
• Editors: Hansen, Karen Tranberg; Le Zotte, Jennifer
• Contents: Introduction: Changing Secondhand Economies Karen Tranberg Hansen and Jennifer Le Zotte 1. Domestic textiles and country house sales in Georgian England Jon Stobart 2. ‘Fence-ing lessons’: child junkers and the commodification of scrap in the long nineteenth century Wendy A. Woloson 3. Jews, second-hand trade and upward economic mobility: Introducing the ready-to-wear business in industrializing Helsinki, 1880–1930 Laura Katarina Ekholm 4. Shylocks to superheroes: Jewish scrap dealers in Anglo-American popular culture Jonathan Z. S. Pollack 5. The mass consumption of refashioned clothes: Re-dyed kimono in post war Japan Miki Sugiura 6. The work of shopping: Resellers and the informal economy at the goodwill bins Jennifer Ayres 7. Valuation in action: Ethnography of an American thrift store Frederik Larsen 8. History as business: Changing dynamics of retailing in Gothenburg’s second-hand market Staffan Appelgren 9. Second-hand vehicle markets in West Africa: A source of regional disintegration, trade informality and welfare losses Abel Ezeoha, Chinwe Okoyeuzu, Emmanuel Onah and Chibuike Uche 10. Urban prototypes: Growing local circular cloth economies Lucy Norris
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 381.19; Secondhand trade; Sustainability
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000545029; 9781000544961; 9781003258285
• Related ISBNs: 9781032192376
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