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Where am I Wearing?

Where am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes, Revised and Updated

Author: Kelsey Timmerman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118277553
Published In: April 2012
Format: Paperback , 304 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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 book
Kelsey 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.

Preface

Prologue

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

2012 Update: Hungry for Choices

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

2012 update: The Faces of Crisis

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: Blue Jean Machine

Chapter 17: Progress

Chapter 18: Treasure and Trash

2012 update: Migration

Part IV: My Flip-Flops: Made in China

Chapter 19: PO'ed VP

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

2012 update: Restarting, Again

Part V: My Shorts: Made in America

Chapter 26: For Richer, for Poorer

Chapter 27: Return to Fantasy Island

Chapter 28: Amilcar’s Journey

Chapter 29: An American Dream

Chapter 30: Touron Goes Glocal

Discussion Questions

Not to Freshmen Me

Where Am I Wearing Service-Learning Guide

Acknowledgements

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.