Pietra Rivoli

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters

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Produktbeschreibung

The 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. Tracing a T-shirt s life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy. Along the way, this fascinating exploration addresses a wealth of compelling questions about politics, trade, economics, ethics, and the impact of history on today s business landscape. This new printing of the second edition includes a revised preface and a new epilogue with updates through 2014 on the people, industries, and policies related to the T-shirt s life story.

Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which to explore the business, economic, moral, and political complexities of globalization in a historical context, Travels encapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiable object that will strike a chord with readers as they:

Investigate the sources of sustained competitive advantage in different industries
Examine the global economic and political forces that explain trade patters between countries
Analyze complex moral issues related to globalization and international business
Discover the importance of cultural and human elements in international trade
This story of a simple product illuminates the many complex issues which businesspeople, policymakers, and global citizens are touched by every day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W118950140
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781118950142
• ISBN-10: 1118950143
• Artikelnr.: 41196739

Autorenporträt

PIETRA RIVOLI, PHD, is Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where she specializes in international business, finance, and social issues in business. Travels of a T-Shirt has won numerous awards and has been translated into fourteen languages.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE ix PROLOGUE xvii PART I KING COTTON 1 1 How America Has Dominated
the Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years 3 2 The History of American Cotton
9 3 Back at the Reinsch Farm 24 4 All God's Dangers Ain't the Subsidies 49
PART II MADE IN CHINA 75 5 Cotton Comes to China 77 6 The Long Race to the
Bottom 92 7 Sisters in Time 105 8 The Unwitting Conspiracy 120 PART III
TROUBLE AT THE BORDER 141 9 Returning to America 143 10 Dogs Snarling
Together 156 11 Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt
Trade Policy 171 12 45 Years of ''Temporary'' Protectionism End in
2009-----Now What? 196 PART IV MY T-SHIRT FINALLY ENCOUNTERS A FREE MARKET
213 13 Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin 215 14 How Small
Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts 227 15 Mitumba:
Friend or Foe to Africa? 239 CONCLUSION 253 EPILOGUE: DEVELOPMENTS
2009---2014 262 I: American Cotton Is Still King 262 II: The Race to the
Bottom Speeds Up 270 III: The Alphabet Armies March On 277 IV: Competition
Heats Up in the Used Clothing Business 282 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 286 NOTES 288
BIBLIOGRAPHY 310 INDEX 335