TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rivoli,Pietra
TI  - The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy: an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade 
SN  - 9780470287163 (pbk.)
AV  - HD9969.S6 R58 2009
U1  - 382/.456 RIV  22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - T-shirt industry
KW  - International trade
KW  - Free trade
KW  - International economic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-304) and index; How America has dominated the global cotton industry for 200 years -- The history of American cotton -- Back at the Reinsch farm -- All God's dangers ain't the subsidies -- Cotton comes to China -- The long race to the bottom -- Sisters in time -- The unwitting conspiracy -- Returning to America -- Dogs snarling together -- Perverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade policy -- 45 years of "temporary" protectionism end in 2009--now what? -- Where T-shirts go after the Salvation Army bin -- How small entrepreneurs clothe East Africa with old American T-shirts -- Mitumba : friend or foe to Africa?
ER  -