Drifting in a Global Space of Textile Flows: Apparel Bazaars in Poland's Łódź Region

Szymon Marcińczak and Martin Van Der Velde

European Planning Studies, 2007, vol. 16, issue 7, 911-923

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of globalization and the circulation of money, goods and people on the functioning of post-socialist apparel bazaars in Poland's Łódź region. The theoretical backbone of the study is presented first, followed by an introduction to the general phenomenon of the bazaar. The following sections then address the temporal, spatial and institutional contexts of the development of the Łódź region's textile industry, and how the more recent opportunities, constraints and threats of globalization have been perceived and maintained by key players at the PTAK Bazaar. We argue that local economic development, in which the bazaar plays a crucial role, is scale-dependent. No longer the subject of a topo-cratic, hierarchical policy as it was under the socialist regime, current performance is the result of both vertical and horizontal power geometries.

Date: 2007
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