Where am I Wearing?

A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes

AvKelsey Timmerman

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothes When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. By introducing readers to the human element of globalization—the factory workers, their names, their families, and their way of life—Where Am I Wearing bridges the gap between global producers and consumers. New content includes: a visit to a fair trade Ethiopian shoe factory that is changing lives one job at time; updates on how workers worldwide have been squeezed by rising food costs and declining orders in the wake of the global financial crisis; and the author's search for the garment worker in Honduras who inspired the first edition of the bookKelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country and maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Condé Nast Portfolio, and has aired on NPR.Enlightening and thought-provoking at once, Where Am I Wearing? puts a human face on globalization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-04-27
Mått:150 x 224 x 23 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Where am I?
Antal sidor:304
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781118277553

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Tillverkningsindustri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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KELSEY TIMMERMAN is a freelance journalist and public speaker. He's spent the night in Castle Dracula in Romania, gone undercover as an underwear buyer in Bangladesh, and taught an island village to play baseball in Honduras. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and has aired on NPR.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface xiPrologue: We Have It Made xvPart I The Mission 1Chapter 1 A Consumer Goes Global 3Chapter 2 Tattoo’s Tropical Paradise 13Chapter 3 Fake Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Anti-Sweatshop Protestors 17Part II My Underwear: Made in Bangladesh 21Chapter 4 Jingle These 23Chapter 5 Undercover in the Underwear Biz 31Chapter 6 Bangladesh Amusement Park 37Chapter 7 Inside My First Sweatshop 43Chapter 8 Child Labor in Action 49Chapter 9 Arifa, the Garment Worker 55Chapter 10 Hope 63Chapter 11 No Black and White, Only Green 69Update for Revised Edition: Hungry for Choices 75Part III My Pants: Made in Cambodia 79Chapter 12 Labor Day 81Chapter 13 Year Zero 87Chapter 14 Those Who Wear Levi’s 93Chapter 15 Those Who Make Levi’s 99Chapter 16 Blue Jean Machine 111Chapter 17 Progress 121Chapter 18 Treasure and Trash 129Update for Revised Edition: The Faces of Crisis 135Part IV My Flip-Flops: Made in China 139Chapter 19 PO’ed VP 141Chapter 20 Life at the Bottom 149Chapter 21 Growing Pains 159Chapter 22 The Real China 169Chapter 23 On a Budget 177Chapter 24 An All-American Chinese Walmart 181Chapter 25 The Chinese Fantasy 187Update for Revised Edition: Migration 193Part V Made in America 197Chapter 26 For Richer, for Poorer 199Update for Revised Edition: Restarting, Again 211Chapter 27 Return to Fantasy Island 215Chapter 28 Amilcar’s Journey 229Chapter 29 An American Dream 237Chapter 30 Touron Goes Glocal 249Appendix A Discussion Questions 269Appendix B Note to Freshman Me 275Appendix C Where Are You Teaching?: A Guide to Taking Where Am I Wearing? to a Glocal Context 279Acknowledgments 285