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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy

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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory to a used clothing market in Africa, to investigate compelling questions about the politics, economics, ethics, and history of modern business and globalization. Using the story of the t-shirt to illustrate the major issues of the globalization debate, this uniquely entertaining business book offers a surprising, enlightening, and balanced look at one of the major topics of our time.

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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
March 3, 2009, Wiley, John Wiley
Paperback in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: Anata no t-shatsu wa doko kara kita no ka?
Anata no t-shatsu wa doko kara kita no ka?: dare mo kakanakatta gurōbarizēshon no shinjitsu
2007, Tōyō Keizai Shinpōsha
in Japanese
Cover of: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Cover of: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
2005, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Electronic resource in English
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New York

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Library of Congress
HD9969.S6R58 2005, HD9969.S6 R58 2005

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Format
Electronic resource
Number of pages
254

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24263140M
ISBN 13
9780471724193
LCCN
2004025910
OCLC/WorldCat
56894579
OverDrive
7E303D66-8219-4682-B147-94A114D94145

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OL8204598W

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Praise for THE TRAVELS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY "Engrossing . . . (Rivoli) goes wherever the T-shirt goes, and there are surprises around every corner . . . full of memorable characters and vivid scenes." --Time "An engaging and illuminating saga. . . . Rivoli follows her T-shirt along its route, but that is like saying that Melville follows his whale. . . . Her nuanced and fair-minded approach is all the more powerful for eschewing the pretense of ideological absolutism, and her telescopic look through a single industry has all the makings of an economics classic." --The New York Times "Rarely is a business book so well written that one would gladly stay up all night to finish it. Pietra Rivoli's The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is just such a page-turner." --CIO magazine "Succeeds admirably . . . T-shirts may not have cha...

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