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Mapping Global Production in New York City's Garment Industry: The Role of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's Immigrant Economy

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As a key production site in New York City's garment industry, Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood is increasingly made up of small Asian and Latino immigrant-owned firms. Market conditions created by the globalization of garment production and the continued influx of low-skill immigrants promote a primary competitive advantage embedded in “low-road†strategies evident in the prevalence of sweatshop conditions. Reflecting a “carrot and stick†approach, Sunset Park has been a target for the federal and state departments of labor as well as the site for developing a garment manufacturers' incubator, Brooklyn Mills. This article examines the mismatch of using a conventional economic development strategy to address the conditions of Sunset Park's immigrant economy. Brooklyn Mills illustrates how immigrant firms feel the stick but benefit little in terms of innovative policy intervention, that is, carrots, to stimulate equitable development in a sweatshop economy.

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  • Tarry Hum, 2003. "Mapping Global Production in New York City's Garment Industry: The Role of Sunset Park, Brooklyn's Immigrant Economy," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 17(3), pages 294-309, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:17:y:2003:i:3:p:294-309
    DOI: 10.1177/0891242403255088
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    1. Anand Chand, 2018. "Expanding Gouldner’s Theory of Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: Looking Back and Moving Forward," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 137(1), pages 317-334, May.
    2. Dewey, Matías, 2014. "Taxing the shadow: The political economy of sweatshops in La Salada, Argentina," MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/18, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.

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