Leah Armstrong and Felice McDowell (eds), Fashioning Professionals. Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries, London and New York : Bloomsbury, 2018, 201 pp.

The study of labor is a fashionable topic. Today we assist to a large discussion on the idea of labor, work and ethics not only in connection to the exploitation of workers within the fast-fashion systems of production but also in relation to what has been defined as the “creative industries” in ‘Western’ society. While I am writing this review, newspapers are publishing a variety of articles denouncing misbehavior in the fashion image-making industry where sexual harassment, flexibility and ...