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Where am I wearing? : a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make 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 garme...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : We have it made
- Part 1: The mission ; A consumer goes global
- Tattoo's tropical paradise
- Fake blood, sweat, and tears : anti-sweatshop protesters
- Part 2: My underwear : made In Bangladesh ; 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
- Part 3: My pants : made in Cambodia ; 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
- - Part 4: My flip-flops : made in China ; PO'ed VP
- Margaritaville
- Life at the bottom
- Growing pains
- The real China
- On a budget
- An all-American Chinese Wal-Mart
- The Chinese fantasy
- (Update for revised edition) Migration
- Part 5: Made in America ; 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.