The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Subtitle: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley; John Wiley
Published: March 3, 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780470287163
Subjects: T-shirt industry; International trade; Free trade; International economic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reinsch cotton farm, Smyer, Texas; title: The history of American cotton; title: Back at the Reinsch farm; title: All God's dangers ain't the subsidies; title: Cotton comes to China; title: The long race to the bottom; title: Sisters in time; title: The unwitting conspiracy; title: Returning to America; title: Dogs snarling together; title: Perverse effects and unintended consequences of t-shirt trade policy; title: 45 clears of "temporary" protectionism ends in 2005, now what?; title: Where t-shirts go after the Salvation Army bin; title: How small entrepreneurs clothe east Africa with old American t-shirts.