Part 1
This invention by Eli Whitney massively enhanced the production process of american cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin
After being produced in Texas, cotton is often sent to this major Chinese city.
What is Shanghai?
This countries imports to the United States soared to 800% in 2005, causing the Bush administration to limit its textile and apparel imports.
What is China?
This type of clothing has no value if it is torn or damaged, however can be repurposed as wiping rags in the worlds factories.
What is a T-Shirt?
This United States city is dubbed the “cottonest city in the world."
What is Lubbock Texas?
This group of laborers dubbed in Japan as “birds in a cage” was also tapped in China and New England.
What is women?
Rivoli argues that the implementation of various versions of these trade barriers are most protecting americas allies and friends.
What are tariffs and quotas?
This charity repurposes americans clothes by collecting donations and sending them to communities in need.
What is Salvation Army?
American cotton farms have either exploited or avoided this market.
What is the Labor Market?
This overcrowded work environment describes workers as “controlled, exploited, overworked and underpaid."
What are sweatshops?
This phrase is used by Rivoli to describe companies maneuvers to reduce labor cost and sacrifice quality to produce at the lowest cost possible.
What is the race to the bottom?
This african nations women are typically seen wearing native cloth, while the men are commonly seen wearing used american tshirts.
What is Tanzania?
Some say this governmental policy is hypocritical of the US as “the leader of free trade."
What are Agricultural Subsidies?
Students at this american university protested sweatshops by forcing factories to abide by a code of standards to produce tshirts with their university logo.
What is Georgetown?
This free trade agreement allowed sherry manufacturing to import apparel from many central american countries.
What is CAFTA?
This swahili term is used to describe used clothing imported to africa, which is most often tshirts.
What is Mitumba?