The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy : an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade /

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt's life story fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rivoli, Pietra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2015]
Edition:Second edition, new preface and epilogue, with updates on economic issues and main characters.
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Table of Contents:
  • How America has dominated the global cotton industry for 200 years
  • The history of American cotton
  • Back at the Reinsch farm
  • All God's dangers ain't the subsidies
  • Cotton comes to China
  • The long race to the bottom
  • Sisters in time
  • The unwitting conspiracy
  • Returning to America
  • Dogs snarling together
  • Perverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade policy
  • 45 years of "temporary" protectionism end in 2009
  • now what?
  • Where T-shirts go after the Salvation Army bin
  • How small entrepreneurs clothe East Africa with old American T-shirts
  • Mitumba : friend or foe to Africa? Conclusion. Epilogue: Developments 2009-2014. American cotton is still king
  • The rase to the bottom speeds up
  • The alphabet armies march on
  • Competition heats up in the used clothing business.