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Title: Global Socio-economic Networks and Ethnic Relations in the Fashion District, Los Angeles
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: his study aims to examine the relations between the ethnic groups in the urban economic community and the restructuring of the global value chain due to the globalization of Los Angeles apparel industry through the theories and discussions of economic geography and cultural geography. The objectives of the study are as follows. First, from the historical geographical point of view, this dissertation tries to reconstruct the trajectory and occupation of the Los Angeles fashion district from its formation to the present and to clarify the process by which various immigrant groups became engaged in the apparel industry. Second, as the globalization of capitalism progresses in the 1970s, the process of restructuring the apparel industry through the California and Los Angeles apparel industries will be examined, and the global value chain of the Los Angeles apparel industry will be analyzed. Third, this study aims to find how the expansion and restructuring of the global network of the apparel industry have affected the regional change of the Los Angeles fashion district, as the expansion of the global network meets local. Fourth, this research intends to interpret the historical and spatial relationship that the migrant groups with different races and ethnicities coexist on the local scale through the reconstruction process of the relationship of conflict, competition, negotiation, and compromise, and clarify the dynamics of the urban economic community. This study is the result of the research using the quantitative and qualitative data on the global network and ethnic relations of the fashion district in downtown Los Angeles from March 2014 to November 2017...
Url: http://dspace.ewha.ac.kr/handle/2015.oak/240444
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Authors: Kim, Su-Jeong
Institution: Ewha Womans University Graduate School
Department: Social Studies Education
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Race and Ethnicity
Countries: United States