Where am I wearing? a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes /

"A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothesWhen 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 Weari...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Timmerman, Kelsey, 1979-
مؤلف مشترك: ebrary, Inc
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2012.
الطبعة:Rev. and updated.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
الوسوم: إضافة وسم
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Prologue: We have it made
  • A consumer goes global
  • Tattoo's tropical paradise
  • Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protestors
  • Jingle these
  • Undercover in the underwear biz
  • Bangladesh amusement park
  • Inside my first sweatshop
  • Child labor in action
  • Arifa, the garment worker
  • Hope
  • No black and white, only green
  • (Update for revised edition) Hungry for choices
  • Labor day
  • Year zero
  • Those who wear Levi's
  • Those who make Levi's
  • Blue jean machine
  • Progress
  • Treasure and trash
  • (Update for revised edition) The faces of crisis
  • PO'ed VP
  • Life at the bottom
  • Growing pains
  • The real China
  • On a budget
  • An all-American Chinese Walmart
  • The Chinese fantasy
  • (Update for revised edition) Migration
  • For richer, for poorer
  • (Update for revised edition) Restarting, again
  • Return to fantasy island
  • Amilcar's journey
  • An American dream
  • Touron goes glocal
  • Appendix A: Discussion questions
  • Appendix B: Note to freshman me
  • Appendix C: Where are you teaching? : a guide to taking Where am I wearing? to a glocal context.