“In this gut-wrenching ethnography of the “Made in Italy” label, Krause travels along the underground routes of the global fashion industry, where not only garments circulate, but also Chinese migrant laborers, their families, and their children, whose precarious claims to Italian citizenship expose the crisis of belonging in the New Europe. Tight Knit is what an anthropology of global capital ought to look like.”

Lilith Mahmud, author of The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in It

“It is a truism that family never falls out of fashion; it is also a truism that fashion is quickly out of date. Tight Knit stitches these together, in a remarkable account of how global apparel supply chains intertwine with transnational families and the social and material bases of fast fashion entrepreneurship in Italy and Chinese immigrant labor. With implications for the rapid shifts in labor taking place not just in the fashion industry but more broadly, Tight Knit illuminates the mutual implication of family relationships and the complex fabric of the global economy.”

Bill Maurer, coeditor of Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff