Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes
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Where am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes

By Kelsey Timmerman
John Wiley & Sons November 2008

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780470376546
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication
November 2008
Format
Hardback , 272 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Globalization makes it difficult to know where the things you buy come from. Journalist and travel writer Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, so he traveled from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back. Along the way, he met the people who made his favorite clothes and learned as much about them as he did about globalization itself. Enlightening and controversial at once, this book puts a human face on globalization.
 
Features:
  • A personal look at globalization and outsourcing
  • Bridges the gap between global producers and consumers by introducing students to the human elements of globalization
  • Puts a face on the impersonal force of globalization

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Prologue: We Have It Made.

Part I: The Mission.

Chapter 1: A Consumer Goes Global.

Chapter 2: Tattoo's Tropical Paradise.

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

Part II: My Underwear: Made in Bangladesh.

Chapter 4: Jingle These.

Chapter 5: Undercover in the Underwear Biz.

Chapter 6: Bangladesh Amusement Park.

Chapter 7: Inside My First Sweatshop.

Chapter 8: Child Labor in Action.

Chapter 9: Arifa, the Garment Worker.

Chapter 10: Hope.

Chapter 11: No Black and White, Only Green.

Part III: My Pants: Made in Cambodia.

Chapter 12: Labor Day.

Chapter 13: Year Zero.

Chapter 14: Those Who Wear Levi's.

Chapter 15: Those Who Make Levi's.

Chapter 16: Progress.

Chapter 17: Treasure and Trash.

Part IV: My Flip-Flops: Made in China.

Chapter 18: PO'ed VP.

Chapter 19: Margaritaville.

Chapter 20: Life at the Bottom.

Chapter 21: Growing Pains.

Chapter 22: The Real China.

Chapter 23: On a Budget.

Chapter 24: An All-American Chinese Wal-Mart.

Chapter 25: The Chinese Fantasy.

Part V: My Shorts: Made in USA.

Chapter 26: For Richer, for Poorer.

Chapter 27: Untold Stories.

Appendix: Where Are You Wearing? The Inexact Science of Finding Out Where Your Clothes Were Produced.

About the Author

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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