Free trade and uneven development
Subtitle: the North American apparel industry after NAFTA
By: edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair.
Contributors: Gereffi, Gary.; Spener, David, 1961-; Bair, Jennifer, 1973-
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Canada; Clothing trade -- North America; Clothing trade -- Government policy -- North America; Textile industry -- North America; Textile industry -- Government policy -- North America; Free trade -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The apparel industry and North American economic integration / David Spener, Gary Gereffi, and Jennifer Bair; title: NAFTA and the apparel commodity chain: corporate strategies, interfirm networks, and industrial upgrading / Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi; title: Subcontracting networks in the New York City garment industry: changing characteristics in a global era / Florence Palpacuer; title: The impact of North American economic integration on the Los Angeles apparel industry / Judi A. Kessler; title: The new sweatshops in the United States: how new, how real, how many, and why? / Robert J.S. Ross; title: Labor's response to global production / Edna Bonacich; title: The unraveling seam: NAFTA and the decline of the apparel industry in El Paso, Texas / David Spener; title: Tex Mex: linkages in a binational garment district? The garment industries in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez / Robine van Dooren; title: Commodity chains and industrial organization in the apparel industry in Monterrey and Ciudad Juárez / Jorge Carrilo, Alfredo Hualde, and Araceli Almarez; title: Torreón: the new blue jeans capital of the world / Gary Gereffi, Martha Martinez, and Jennifer Bair; title: Learning and the limits of foreign partners as teachers / Enrique Dussel Peters, Clemente Ruiz Durán, and Michael J. Piore; title: Knitting the networks between Mexican producers and the U.S. market / Ulrik Vangstrup; title: Fragmented markets, elaborate chains: the retail distribution of imported clothing in Mexico / Jorge Mendoza, Fernando Pozos Ponce, and David Spener; title: When does apparel become a peril? On the nature of industrialization in the Caribbean basin / Michael Mortimore; title: Can the Dominican Republic's export-processing zones survive NAFTA? / Dale T. Matthews; title: NAFTA and uneven development in the North American apparel industry / Jennifer Bair, David Spener, and Gary Gereffi