Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: The Frailty of Commodity Chains ix
4. Chapter 1: From Head to Toe 1
5. Part 1: From the Designer’s Point of View
6. Chapter 2: From “the Global” to “the Girl” 27
7. Chapter 3: When Is a Shoe a Shoe? 59
8. Part 2: Feet and Fit
9. Chapter 4: The World at Her Fit: Scale-Making, Uniqueness, and Standardization 91
10. Chapter 5: Cinderella on the Pearl River Delta: Who Has the Power to Translate? 122
11. Part 3: The Global in the Rearview Mirror
12. Interlude: A Landscape of Factories 157
13. Chapter 6: The Ruins and Rubble of Novo Hamburgo: Skill and Melancholia in a Global Shoe Town 169
14. Conclusion: What Did We Learn about Globalization by Looking at Shoes? 208
15. Coda: Shoe Is a Gipsy Business 223
16. Acknowledgments 227
17. Notes 231
18. References 239
19. Index 255