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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
Pietra Rivoli
ISBN: 978-0-471-64849-9
©2005
272 pages
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Table of Contents
PREFACE.

PROLOGUE.

PART I: KING COTTON.

1. Reinsch Cotton Farm, Smyer, Texas.

2. The History of American Cotton.

3. Back at the Reinsch Farm.

PART II: MADE IN CHINA.

4. Cotton Comes to China.

5. The Long Race to the Bottom.

6. Sisters in Time.

PART III: TROUBLE AT THE BORDER.

7. Dogs Snarling Together.

8. Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy.

9. 40 Years of “Temporary” Protectionism Ends in 2005—and China Takes All the Jobs.

PART IV: MY T-SHIRT FINALLY ENCOUNTERS A FREE MARKET.

10. Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin.

11. How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts.

CONCLUSION.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

NOTES.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

INDEX.  


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