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
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-95015-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt'sjourney
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is acritically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalizationdebates and reveals the key factors to success in global business.Tracing a T-shirt's life story from a Texas cotton field to aChinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving atthe used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the politicaland economic forces at work in the global economy. Along the way,this fascinating exploration addresses a wealth of compellingquestions about politics, trade, economics, ethics, and the impactof history on today's business landscape. This new printing of thesecond edition includes a revised preface and a new epilogue withupdates through 2014 on the people, industries, and policiesrelated to the T-shirt's life story.
Using a simple, everyday T-shirt as a lens through which toexplore the business, economic, moral, and political complexitiesof globalization in a historical context, Travelsencapsulates a number of complex issues into a single identifiableobject that will strike a chord with readers as they:
* Investigate the sources of sustained competitive advantage indifferent industries
* Examine the global economic and political forces that explaintrade patters between countries
* Analyze complex moral issues related to globalization andinternational business
* Discover the importance of cultural and human elements ininternational trade
This story of a simple product illuminates the many complexissues which businesspeople, policymakers, and global citizens aretouched by every day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rivoli, Pietra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE ix
PROLOGUE xvii
PART I KING COTTON 1
1 How America Has Dominated the Global Cotton Industry for 200Years 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 TradePolicy 171
12 45 Years of ''Temporary''Protectionism End in 2009-----Now What? 196
PART IV MY T-SHIRT FINALLY ENCOUNTERS A FREE MARKET213
13 Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin 215
14 How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old AmericanT-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

Über Autor(innen)

PIETRA RIVOLI, PHD, is Professor atGeorgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where shespecializes in international business, finance, and social issuesin business. Travels of a T-Shirt has won numerous awardsand has been translated into fourteen languages.