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Book: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Travels+of+a+T+Shirt+in+the+Global+Economy%3A+An+Economist+Examines+the+Markets%2C+Power%2C+and+Politics+of+World+Trade+New+Preface+and+Epilogue+with+Updates+on+Economic+Issues+and+Main+Characters%2C+2nd+Edition-p-97
By title ‘The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy’, (Pietra Rivoli, 2005) sound like a potential lost classic of traceability. Unfortunately, it is not. A t-shirt is bought in Florida, screen-printed in Florida from a shirt made from Texan cotton in Shanghai. That is the coat hanger for the narrative, but of little substance to the overall book. The debates on the pros and cons of globalism are still here but have changed so much that the context for this book seems Jurassic. What we do get is a particular argument on how nations develop economically and that the bottom of the race to the bottom is progressively less deep. Long before food and energy textile supply chains achieved global reach and the results on working conditions have always been brutal. Rivoli foresaw that the apparel industry would eventually leave China. The Rana Plaza tragedy however shows how the deep the bottom can still be. There are interesting chapters on the ways the US textile sector managed to escape free market conditions and it ends with an overview of the 2nd life of donated clothing in Africa. It seems 2005 is long time ago.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Travels+of+a+T+Shirt+in+the+Global+Economy%3A+An+Economist+Examines+the+Markets%2C+Power%2C+and+Politics+of+World+Trade+New+Preface+and+Epilogue+with+Updates+on+Economic+Issues+and+Main+Characters%2C+2nd+Edition-p-97
By title ‘The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy’, (Pietra Rivoli, 2005) sound like a potential lost classic of traceability. Unfortunately, it is not. A t-shirt is bought in Florida, screen-printed in Florida from a shirt made from Texan cotton in Shanghai. That is the coat hanger for the narrative, but of little substance to the overall book. The debates on the pros and cons of globalism are still here but have changed so much that the context for this book seems Jurassic. What we do get is a particular argument on how nations develop economically and that the bottom of the race to the bottom is progressively less deep. Long before food and energy textile supply chains achieved global reach and the results on working conditions have always been brutal. Rivoli foresaw that the apparel industry would eventually leave China. The Rana Plaza tragedy however shows how the deep the bottom can still be. There are interesting chapters on the ways the US textile sector managed to escape free market conditions and it ends with an overview of the 2nd life of donated clothing in Africa. It seems 2005 is long time ago.