The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

• An Economist Examines the Markets, Power,
• and Politics of World Trade

Read Chapters 1 through 4
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Author Pietra Rivoli

• Professor of economics at Georgetown U.
• Wrote manuscript between 1999 and 2004
• Published in 2005
• Authored various professional articles
• Participates in education programs for women in
  developing countries

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Book Outline
King Cotton 1 Reinsch Cotton Farm,
Smyer, Texas 2 The History of
American Cotton 3 Back at the Reinsch
Farm Made in China 4. Cotton Comes to
China 5. The Long Race to the Bottom
6. Sisters in Time Trouble at the
Border 7. Dogs Snarling Together
8. Perverse Effect and Unintended Trade
Policy Consequences 9 Forty Years of
Temporary Protectionism Ends in 2005 My T-Shirt
Finally Encounters a Free Market 10
Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin
11 Small Entrepreneurs Clothing East
Africa with US T-Shirts
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Chapter 2 History of American Cotton

• Cotton plantations and U.S. slavery
• Sea Island cotton and Upland cotton
• Eli Whitneys cotton gin
• Slavery as an evasion of labor markets risks
• The sharecroppers system
• Creative solutions monkeys, geese, and flames

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The Deep South without Texas
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin makes possible to grow
cotton west of the Deep South
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The Deep South with Texas
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Farming Cotton
Week 4
Week 2
Week 6
Week 6
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Tractors and Cotton Farming
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Tractors and Cotton Farming
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Chapter 3 Back at the Reinsch Farm

• Lubbock, Texas USs 25 cotton center.
• Role of tractors in cotton farming
• The Reinsch children leave the farm
• The political influence of US farmers
• Who and where is the competition?

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Chapter 4 US Cotton Goes to China

• US cotton traveling to China
• Shanghai Number 36 Cotton Yarn Factory
• From Yarn to Garments

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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

• An Economist Examines the Markets, Power,
• and Politics of World Trade

Read Chapters 1 through 4
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