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The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy Contents Preface: How Student Protests Sent A Business Professor Around the World Prologue: I Find My T-Shirt's Birthplace Part 1: King Cotton: How America Has Dominated The Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years Chapter 1: Reinsch Cotton Farm, Smyer Texas Chapter 2: The History of American Cotton: Winning By Ducking the Labor Market Chapter 3: Back at the Farm: All God's Dangers Ain't the Subsidies Part II: Made in China Chapter 4: Cotton Comes to China Chapter 5: Sisters in Time: From the Farm to the Sweatshop Part III: Trouble at the Border: My T-Shirt Returns to America Chapter 6: Dogs Snarling Together: How Politics Came to Rule the Global Apparel Trade Chapter 7: Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy: Chapter 8: 40 Years of "Temporary" Protectionism Ends in 2005--And China Takes All the Jobs Part IV: My T-Shirt Finally Encounters a Free Market: The Global Trade in Cast-off Clothing Chapter 9: Where T-Shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin: Japan, Poland, Tanzania, and the Rag Factory Chapter 10: How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
T-shirt industry.
International trade.
Free trade.
International economic relations.