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The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy : an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade / Pietra Rivoli.
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Rivoli, Pietra
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English
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Second edition, new preface and epilogue, with updates on economic issues and main characters.
Published/Created
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2015]
©2015
Description
xx, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA)
HD9969.S6 R58 2015
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T-shirt industry
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International trade
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Free trade
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Summary note
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 from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy. Along the way, this fascinating exploration addresses a wealth of compelling questions about politics, trade, economics, ethics, and the impact of history on today's business landscape. This new printing of the second edition includes a revised preface and a new epilogue with updates through 2014 on the people, industries, and policies related to the T-shirt's life story. Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord with readers as they: Investigate the sources of sustained competitive advantage in different industries ; Examine the global economic and political forces that explain trade patters between countries ; Analyze complex moral issues related to globalization and international business ; Discover the importance of cultural and human elements in international trade. This story of a simple product illuminates the many complex issues which businesspeople, policymakers, and global citizens are touched by every day.
Notes
"New preface and epilogue, with updates on economic issues and main characters"--Cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-334) and index.
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.
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ISBN
9781118950142
1118950143
LCCN
2015414035
OCLC
880565779
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