Stretching global production networks: The international second-hand clothing trade

Brooks, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.06.004

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“…There is a longstanding debate of what determines importation of second-hand cars rather than buying new ones or from the domestic second-hand market. The most common invoked reasons are the followings: the brand of the cars and the social images/status it implies; the selling price in the destination country; higher gains for importers; oversupply in the origin countries; liberalization of car markets; decline in demand for new cars; exiting trade routes that facilitate their importation [3,6,[36][37][38][39][40][41]. In the current case, the evidence suggests a combination of factors that occurred in the last two decades in Romania and which will be further detailed below: international migration and liberalization of car market.…”

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The Safety of Transnational Imported Second-Hand Cars: A Case Study on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Crashes in Romania

2017

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Certain features of imported second-hand cars (e.g., age, degree of wear and tear, technical design) can increase their likelihood for traffic crashes. Three official datasets which cover an eight year period (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) are used to test the connection between importation of second-hand cars and different types of traffic crashes. The traffic crashes database was provided by the Traffic Department of the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police (GIRPTD). The car registration database was provided by Driving-License and Vehicles-Registration Direction (DLVRD). Right-hand driving (RHD) cars database was provided by the Romanian Automotive Registry (RAR). A spatio-temporal visualization of data was performed using Geographic Information System (GIS) while for the statistical analysis we use regression models and Pearson-Correlation-coefficient. The analysis suggests that a significant part of the variation in the volume of traffic accidents can be explained by the volume of imported second-hand cars at the county level. Moreover, an even stronger direct relation exists between the number of imported second-hand cars and Severe Traffic Accidents but also in the case of RHD imported second-hand cars. The overall impact of imported second-hand cars on the traffic safety in Romania is significant but small in comparison to other types of car registration. Study results belong to the category of empirical evidence production which can improve the quality of existing traffic regulations focused both on organizing and ensuring traffic safety, and on the policy of sustainable transport infrastructure development.

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The Safety of Transnational Imported Second-Hand Cars: A Case Study on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Crashes in Romania

2017

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“…Andrew Brooks' research on used clothing in Mozambique is one instance of an attempt to stretch a framework derived in relation to primary production to encompass goods returning to the commodity form [157]. As well as emphasising the importance of family-based networks of traders and diaspora populations, he links these to the networks of charities and firms who collect and sort used clothing in the UK and argues for conceptualising these relationships as either coordinated or non-integrated chains.…”

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From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

Gregson

Crang

2015

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

122

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“…4 Milgram also describes how Filipina dealers take over public spaces (Milgram, 2011); some women have managed to accumulate significant resources over years of strategic trading via Hong Kong (Milgram, 2008). However, the sustainability of livelihoods has been challenged in the case of Mozambique where those at the bottom may fail to earn a living wage (Brooks, 2012) and there is little proof that the trade does much to alleviate poverty (Ericsson and Brooks, 2014).…”

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The limits of ethicality in international markets: Imported second-hand clothing in India

Norris¹

2015

Geoforum

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a b s t r a c tThose of us living in the global north are increasingly urged to divert cast-off clothing from the local waste stream and donate it for reuse and recycling. It is argued that this is the right thing to do, since it is environmentally responsible behaviour, conserves resources, and supports charities via collection systems. Second-hand clothing is thereby culturally framed as waste, as a surplus, and as a morally-charged product that has a powerful redemptive capacity for donors, multiple recyclers and secondary consumers. Two-thirds of collected used clothing is commercially exported for reuse in developing countries, and it is as a freely-traded commodity that it is claimed to grow markets and support livelihoods in the global south, rather than a fairly-traded product. As policy-makers in Northern Europe seek to improve sustainable systems of textile reuse and recycling, ethical issues associated with distant destination markets in the global South are beginning to garner attention. Imported used clothing is ubiquitous in India despite highly restrictive tariff barriers, and the Indian market provides a thought-provoking example since in this case the trade is neither fair nor free. The paper evidences the complexity of the market as vertical hierarchies of dealers negotiate and expand the multiple spaces between legal and illegal commodity flows, and formal and informal economies, to build successful businesses. It reflects upon debates in India around democracy, development and neoliberal economics, and suggests that efforts to introduce ethical interventions in end markets will have to negotiate the nexus of power, politics and corruption.

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Stretching global production networks: The international second-hand clothing trade

Cited by 93 publications

References 37 publications

The Safety of Transnational Imported Second-Hand Cars: A Case Study on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Crashes in Romania

The Safety of Transnational Imported Second-Hand Cars: A Case Study on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Crashes in Romania

From Waste to Resource: The Trade in Wastes and Global Recycling Economies

The limits of ethicality in international markets: Imported second-hand clothing in India

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