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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 382.45687115 EAN: 9780470039205 ISBN: 0470039205 Label: Wiley Manufacturer: Wiley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: June 30, 2006 Publisher: Wiley Studio: Wiley Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Fantastic, well-written, and eye-openingUpon first glance, it might appear that this book details economic aspects of a single industry, namely that of T-shirts. You'd be mistaken. It instead offers an insightful look into several different aspects of T-shirt production, including agriculture, factory working conditions, free trade (and lack thereof), and concluding with the world-wide used T-shirt market. Each of these sections could merit a book topic in its own right, but Ms. Rivoli has wonderfully ... Read More Rating: - Insights into global tradeThis is easy to read and understand, written in an engaging and conversational style, with some important insights into the mysteries of crop subsidies, textile quotas and the fate of donated clothing. It's a great illustration and analysis of globalization in action. Rating:  - history of EVERYTHING about your t-shirt, from birth in a Texan cotton field to re-birth in a Tanzanian 2nd-hand clothing marketAllow me to provide a more descriptive title for this volume: What I did last summer + a history of cotton growing in America + a history of cotton mills around the world + a brief history of Shanghai + a brief history of child labor + a brief history of labor activism + a brief history of workplace safety regulations + a not-at-all-brief history of US textile protectionism + a characterization of the international market for used clothes. Interesting? Often. In the course of all these ... Read More Rating: - Boring and not informative enoughWorst of both worlds - claims to be anecdotal to get around having to have too much actual information (other than the more boring parts of the history of the American textile industry, but trades in interesting anecdotes for general suppositions and a couple sucess stories. The last section is very cool and interesting and saves this book from the bin. If you get it, skip to the end. Rating: - Informative, delightful, detailed and humaneThe Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade This is not just a fun book which you might infer from the title. It is also informative, scholarly with a light touch, and humane - - treating an apparently trivial subject with breadth and depth in exploring the larger consequences of international trade and the tensions between poor and rich countries. Highly recommended. 
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