Abstract:This chapter deals with a widely studied case, that is, Prato, a middle-sized city with rooted industrial traditions, in the Centre of Italy. Prato is a textile industrial district embedded in the so-called Third Italy-an area characterized by the presence of small firms spread throughout the territory, linked together in supply and subcontracting relationships-which, in the last twenty years, has undergone a profound transformation as a consequence of the crisis of textile and immigration, leading to the form… Show more
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