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More About This Title The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, 2nd Edition
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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.
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Prologue.
PART I: KING COTTON.
Chapter 1: How America Has Dominated the Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years.
Chapter 2: The History of American Cotton.
Chapter 3: Back at the Reinsch Farm.
Chapter 4: All God's Dangers Ain't the Subsidies.
PART II: MADE IN CHINA.
Chapter 5: Cotton Comes to China.
Chapter 6: The Long Race to the Bottom.
Chapter 7: Sisters in Time.
Chapter 8: The Unwitting Conspiracy.
PART III: TROUBLE AT THE BORDER.
Chapter 9: Returning to America.
Chapter 10: Dogs Snarling Together.
Chapter 11: Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy.
Chapter 12: 45 Clears of “Temporary” Protectionism Ends in 2009—Now What?
PART IV: MY T-SHIRT FINALLY ENCOUNTERS A FREE MARKET.
Chapter 13: Where T-shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin.
Chapter 14: How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe east Africa with Old American T-Shirts.
Chapter 15: Mitumba: Friend or Foe to Africa?
Conclusion.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
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"Engrossing . . . (Rivoli) goes wherever the T-shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner . . . full of memorable characters and vivid scenes."
—Time
"An engaging and illuminating saga. . . . Rivoli follows her T-shirt along its route, but that is like saying that Melville follows his whale. . . . Her nuanced and fair-minded approach is all the more powerful for eschewing the pretense of ideological absolutism, and her telescopic look through a single industry has all the makings of an economics classic."
—The New York Times
"Rarely is a business book so well written that one would gladly stay up all night to finish it. Pietra Rivoli's The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is just such a page-turner."
—CIO magazine
