This book tells the story of the emergence of fashion's new working class in New York: fashion workers engaged in the labor of design and the material making of fashion in the early twenty-first century.

Christina H. Moon is an Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History, Parsons School for Design at The New School.

Introduction: Fashion Workers and the Labor of Design

1. Shoddy Seams: The Decline of the New York Garment Industry and Its Transformation Into New York Fashion

2. Back of House/Front of House: Creative Skills and "Effortless" Labor Among Samplemakers and Fashion Workers

3. The Deskilling of Design: Technology, Education, and the Routinization of Fashion's Engineers

4. Designing Diaspora: The Racialization of Labor, the Rebranding of Korea, and the Movement of Fashion Designers Between Seoul and New York

5. Fast-Fashion Families: Family Ties and Fast-Fashion Production in the Los Angeles Jobber Market

Epilogue: Made in China