Where am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes
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Kelsey Timmerman is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and has aired on NPR. He maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. He lives with his wife, Annie, in Indiana.

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Acknowledgments ix

Prologue: We Have It Made xiii

Part I The Mission

Chapter 1 A Consumer Goes Global 3

Chapter 2 Tattoo's Tropical Paradise 13

Chapter 3 Fake Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Anti-Sweatshop Protestors 17

Part II My Underwear: Made in Bangladesh

Chapter 4 Jingle These 23

Chapter 5 Undercover in the Underwear Biz 33

Chapter 6 Bangladesh Amusement Park 39

Chapter 7 Inside My First Sweatshop 45

Chapter 8 Child Labor in Action 53

Chapter 9 Arifa, the Garment Worker 59

Chapter 10 Hope 69

Chapter 11 No Black and White, Only Green 75

Part III My Pants: Made in Cambodia

Chapter 12 Labor Day 85

Chapter 13 Year Zero 91

Chapter 14 Those Who Wear Levi's 99

Chapter 15 Those Who Make Levi's 107

Chapter 16 Progress 133

Chapter 17 Treasure and Trash 143

Part IV My Flip-Flops: Made in China

Chapter 18 PO'ed VP 151

Chapter 19 Margaritaville 161

Chapter 20 Life at the Bottom 163

Chapter 21 Growing Pains 175

Chapter 22 The Real China 187

Chapter 23 On a Budget 197

Chapter 24 An All-American Chinese Wal-Mart 203

Chapter 25 The Chinese Fantasy 211

Part V My Shorts: Made in the USA

Chapter 26 For Richer, for Poorer 219

Chapter 27 Untold Stories 233

Appendix Where Are You Wearing? The Inexact Science of Finding Out Where Your

Clothes Were Produced 245

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