FSN 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frederick Winslow Taylor, Deskilling, Scientific Management
Document Summary
High quality and value: attracts more moderate and high-end us retailers to produce in canada. Innovative design: men"s tailored suits, coats, lingerie/intimate apparel, children"s wear, active wear, and fur. Quick turnaround time: 2-3 months faster than chinese producers. Flexible in smaller runs: far more flexible than their us and foreign counterparts. Imports from china and the least developed countries (ldcs) have risen due to manufacturing costs. The number of domestic manufacturers closing local operations have risen in favor of offshore product. Clothing prices dropped 4% from 2003-2008 because companies outsourced their production to china; cheap labor and quota elimination. China will become the largest consumer market by 2015. India will become an increasingly important sourcing locale for us firms. Postmodernism: fordism influence and inspired clothing and architecture as well as the automobile industry. Globalization: the way in which ideas and structures that circulate globally are adapted and changed by local realities. Creolization: fusing different cultural meanings to create new forms.
