LEADER 04733nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910453987403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612047176 010 $a1-282-04717-5 010 $a1-4399-0114-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000725172 035 $a(EBL)432898 035 $a(OCoLC)808802956 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000158143 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158143 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10146350 035 $a(PQKB)10159957 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000296847 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947346 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296847 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10327218 035 $a(PQKB)10271081 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432898 035 $a(OCoLC)320898250 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15456 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432898 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10282733 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL204717 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000725172 100 $a20011213d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFree trade and uneven development$b[electronic resource] $ethe North American apparel industry after NAFTA /$fedited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-56639-968-8 311 $a1-56639-967-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Part I: Analytical Overview; 1. Introduction: The Apparel Industry and North American Economic Integration; 2. NAFTA and the Apparel Commodity Chain: Corporate Strategies, Interfirm Networks, and Industrial Upgrading; Part II: The Changing Face of the Apparel Industry in the United States; 3. Subcontracting Networks int he New York City Garment Industry: Changing Characteristics in a Global Era; 4. The Impact of North American Economic Integration on the Los Angeles Apparel Industry 327 $a5. The New Sweatshops in the United States: How New, How Real, How Many, and Why? 6. Labor's Response to Global Production; Part III: The U.S.-Mexico Border Region; 7. The Unraveling Seam: NAFTA and the Decline of the Apparel Industry in El Paso, Texas; 8. TexMex: Linkages in a a Binational Garment District: The Garment Industries in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez; 9. Commodity Chains and Industrial Organization in the Apparel Industry in Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez; Part IV: Interior Mexico; 10. Torreon: The New Blue Jeans Capital of the World 327 $a11. Learning and the Limits of Foreign Partners as Teachers 12. Knitting the Networks Between Mexican Producers and the U.S. Market; 13. Fragmented Markets, Elaborate Chains: The Retail Distribution of Imported Clothing in Mexico; Part V: Central America and the Caribbean; 14. When Does Apparel Become a Peril? On the Nature of Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin; 15. Can the Dominican Republic's Export-Processing Zones Survive NAFTA?; Part VI: Conclusion; 16. NAFTA and Uneven Development in the North American Apparel Industry; About the Contributors; Index 330 $aThis volume addresses many of the complex issues raised by North American integration through the lens of one of the largest and most global industries in the region: textiles and apparel. In part, this is a story of winners and losers in the globalization process, especially if one focuses on jobs lost and jobs gained in different countries and communities within North America, defined here as: Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. However, it would be a mistake to view the industry solely in these zerosum terms. The North American apparel industry is an excel 606 $aClothing trade$zNorth America 606 $aClothing trade$xGovernment policy$zNorth America 606 $aTextile industry$zNorth America 606 $aTextile industry$xGovernment policy$zNorth America 606 $aFree trade$zNorth America 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aClothing trade 615 0$aClothing trade$xGovernment policy 615 0$aTextile industry 615 0$aTextile industry$xGovernment policy 615 0$aFree trade 676 $a382/.45687/097 701 $aGereffi$b Gary$0125006 701 $aSpener$b David$f1961-$0984228 701 $aBair$b Jennifer$f1973-$0873971 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453987403321 996 $aFree trade and uneven development$92485559 997 $aUNINA