The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Rivoli, Pietra -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Title Page Copyright Page Dedication PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PROLOGUE PART I - KING COTTON

Keep the Fiddler Well-Supplied with Catgut Eli Meets a Venture Capitalist Where Was the Competition? All God’s Dangers Ain’t a White Man Cotton Factories Arrive in Texas

Chapter 3 - BACK AT THE REINSCH FARM

C.F. and Hattie Move West (and Bring a Tractor) White Guys Get All Draggy-Like Bureaucrats Push Out Sharecroppers Machines that Don’t Get All Discouraged Pick Your Weather The Reinsch Children Leave the Farm Old Enemies, New Friends Designer Genes Back to Nature or Forward to the Future?

Chapter 4 - ALL GOD’S DANGERS AIN’T THE SUBSIDIES

Backward to Seed and Forward to Denim: Farmer Profits at Every Step No More Handfuls All This and Subsidies, Too Pretty Pigs No Lipstick for Africa Where Is the Competition? Vicious Circles Too Poor to Pollute Bt Cotton Comes to China The Worms Win

PART II - MADE IN CHINA

Chapter 5 - COTTON COMES TO CHINA

The Chinese Wall Shanghai Number 36 Cotton Yarn Factory The Shanghai Brightness Number 3 Garment Factory

Chapter 6 - THE LONG RACE TO THE BOTTOM

Inventive Brits versus Thrifty Chinamen Help Wanted: Docile and Desperate Preferred

Chapter 7 - SISTERS IN TIME

Docility on a Leash Sure Beats the Farm Amazon.com and Dell Arrive at the Mill

Chapter 8 - THE UNWITTING CONSPIRACY

Writing the Rules of the Race Activists Raise the Bottom, 1780-2008 Back at Georgetown, Bored Is Good Bad for Boy Rats Trade: Friend or Foe of the Planet? The China Challenge The Race Moves On

PART III - TROUBLE AT THE BORDER

Chapter 9 - RETURNING TO AMERICA

Chinese T-Shirts Versus American Jobs A Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 2008

Chapter 10 - DOGS SNARLING TOGETHER

Auggie Goes to Washington Making Deals and Making Exceptions 1985 to 1990: The Seed-to-Shirt Coalition Snarling Back Gone On Long Enough The Slow Unraveling

Chapter 11 - PERVERSE EFFECTS AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF T-SHIRT TRADE POLICY

No More Doffers Own Worst Enemy Friends with Benefits Wal-Mart Backs Musharraf Race to the Quotas Auggie and Aristotle Versus Wal-Mart Creative Destruction Whither the Dinosaurs? (Unintended) Winners

Chapter 12 - 45 YEARS OF “TEMPORARY” PROTECTIONISM ENDS IN 2009—NOW WHAT?

The Big Bang The Big Wink and Nod A Sigh of Relief What’s Next? Friends and Enemies, 2008 Obama’s Wink Try This New Underwear

PART IV - MY T-SHIRT FINALLY ENCOUNTERS A FREE MARKET

Chapter 13 - WHERE T-SHIRTS GO AFTER THE SALVATION ARMY BIN

Meet Me in the Parking Lot Panning for Gold in New Jersey T-Shirts in the Afterlife

Chapter 14 - HOW SMALL ENTREPRENEURS CLOTHE EAST AFRICA WITH OLD AMERICAN T-SHIRTS

Mitumba Nation Two for a Penny Panning for Gold in Tanzania Finding Geofrey Too Big for Used Britches

Chapter 15 - MITUMBA: FRIEND OR FOE TO AFRICA?

Shadowy Middlemen and Economic Democracy Don’t Look Now, but China Is Behind You

CONCLUSION Acknowledgements NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX