LEADER 05858nam 2200769 450 001 9910812637903321 005 20240205141213.0 010 $a1-118-95016-X 010 $a1-118-95015-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000576712 035 $a(EBL)1840835 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001415990 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11926524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001415990 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11353042 035 $a(PQKB)11484117 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261930 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16031005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261930 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268761 035 $a(PQKB)21958539 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1840835 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10985083 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL663027 035 $a(OCoLC)896796315 035 $a(CaSebORM)9781118950166 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1840835 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000576712 100 $a20141124h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTravels of a T-shirt in the global economy $ean economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade /$fPietra Rivoli 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aHoboken, New Jersey :$cWiley,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 347 pages) $cillustrations 300 $a"New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters"--Cover. 311 $a1-322-31745-3 311 $a1-118-95014-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Travels of a T-Shirt in The Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade; Contents; Preface; Prologue; Part I: King Cotton; 1 How America Has Dominated the Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years; 2 The History of American Cotton; Keep the Fiddler Well-Supplied with Catgut; Eli Meets a Venture Capitalist; Where Was the Competition?; All God's Dangers Ain't a White Man; Cotton Factories Arrive in Texas; 3 Back at the Reinsch Farm; C.F. and Hattie Move West (and Bring a Tractor); White Guys Get All Draggy-Like; Bureaucrats Push Out Sharecroppers 327 $aMachines that Don't Get All DiscouragedPick Your Weather; The Reinsch Children Leave the Farm; Old Enemies, New Friends; Designer Genes; Back to Nature or Forward to the Future?; 4 All God's Dangers Ain't the Subsidies; Backward to Seed and Forward to Denim: Farmer Profits at Every Step; No More Handfuls; All This and Subsidies, Too; Pretty Pigs; No Lipstick for Africa; Where Is the Competition?; Vicious Circles; Too Poor to Pollute; Bt Cotton Comes to China; The Worms Win; Part II: Made in China; 5 Cotton Comes to China; The Chinese Wall; Shanghai Number 36 Cotton Yarn Factory 327 $aThe Shanghai Brightness Number 3 Garment Factory6 The Long Race to the Bottom; Inventive Brits versus Thrifty Chinamen; Help Wanted: Docile and Desperate Preferred; 7 Sisters in Time; Docility on a Leash; Sure Beats the Farm; Amazon.com and Dell Arrive at the Mill; 8 The Unwitting Conspiracy; Writing the Rules of the Race; Activists Raise the Bottom, 1780---2008; Back at Georgetown, Bored Is Good; Bad for Boy Rats; Trade: Friend or Foe of the Planet?; The China Challenge; The Race Moves On; Part III: Trouble at The Border; 9 Returning to America; Chinese T-Shirts Versus American Jobs 327 $aA Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 200810 Dogs Snarling Together; Auggie Goes to Washington; Making Deals and Making Exceptions; 1985 to 1990: The Seed-to-Shirt Coalition; Snarling Back; Gone On Long Enough; The Slow Unraveling; 11 Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy; No More Doffers; Own Worst Enemy; Friends with Benefits; Wal-Mart Backs Musharraf; Race to the Quotas; Auggie and Aristotle Versus Wal-Mart; Creative Destruction; Whither the Dinosaurs?; (Unintended) Winners; 12 45 Years of ''Temporary'' Protectionism End in 2009-----Now What?; The Big Bang 327 $aThe Big Wink and NodA Sigh of Relief; What's Next?; Friends and Enemies, 2008; Obama's Wink; Try This New Underwear; Part IV: My T-Shirt Finally Encounters A Free Market; 13 Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin; Meet Me in the Parking Lot; Panning for Gold in New Jersey; T-Shirts in the Afterlife; 14 How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts; Mitumba Nation; Two for a Penny; Panning for Gold in Tanzania; Finding Geofrey; Too Big for Used Britches; 15 Mitumba: Friend or Foe to Africa?; Shadowy Middlemen and Economic Democracy 327 $aDon't Look Now, but China Is Behind You 330 $aThe keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. 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