The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy :

By: Rivoli, PietraMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2009Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0470287160 (pbk.); 9780470287163 (pbk.)Subject(s): T-shirt industry | International trade | Free trade | International economic relationsDDC classification: 382.456 LOC classification: HD9969.S6 | R58 2009
Contents:
How America has dominated the global cotton industry for 200 years -- The history of American cotton -- Back at the Reinsch farm -- All God's dangers ain't the subsidies -- Cotton comes to China -- The long race to the bottom -- Sisters in time -- The unwitting conspiracy -- Returning to America -- Dogs snarling together -- Perverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade policy -- 45 years of "temporary" protectionism end in 2009--now what? -- Where T-shirts go after the Salvation Army bin -- How small entrepreneurs clothe East Africa with old American T-shirts -- Mitumba : friend or foe to Africa?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-304) and index.

How America has dominated the global cotton industry for 200 years -- The history of American cotton -- Back at the Reinsch farm -- All God's dangers ain't the subsidies -- Cotton comes to China -- The long race to the bottom -- Sisters in time -- The unwitting conspiracy -- Returning to America -- Dogs snarling together -- Perverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade policy -- 45 years of "temporary" protectionism end in 2009--now what? -- Where T-shirts go after the Salvation Army bin -- How small entrepreneurs clothe East Africa with old American T-shirts -- Mitumba : friend or foe to Africa?