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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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Second edition, new preface and epilogue, with updates on economic issues and main characters. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Table of contents only Publisher description |
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.