Rivoly illustrates how the race to the bottom has raised serious complaints of the negative effects of cheap labor and clothing in the other nations.

The author illustrates this with intuition giving details of the historical accounts of the clothing and textile production progress. The author foresees the fact that China will continue controlling the textile and industry globally.The long race to the bottom This means how the different locations venturing into production in the textile industry have continually offered cheaper production methods when compared to their predecessors. The author illustrates how the cases of employment in these Factories presented liberty for workers more the women workers saving them from the unworthy working conditions. says this book deserves its own T-shirt with 'Must Read' on the front and 'Highly Recommended' on the back.Cotton comes to china Pietra Rivoly in this section provides an interesting intuition in this second part illustrating the history of the Chinese cotton mills showing how despite the terrible working conditions many workers in the past survived in the American clothing factories and in the other clothing factories in developing nations with main reference to china. Her most stunning, most negative conclusion is that - despite debates over free trade and allegedly exploitative markets - everyone involved seems devoted to avoiding market forces altogether. Buying a shirt, she works her way backward in time and space to find its origins, or the origins (and eventual lifespan and demise) of such T-shirts, by relying on inference, deduction and reasonable assumption. Through she can't literally track a single shirt step-by-step, she sustains that metaphor. In this interesting, original approach to the issues of globalization and industrialization, Rivoli shows the economic, political and social forces that come to bear on a T-shirt. Her compelling book tracks T-shirts from the Texas cotton fields, through manufacturing in China, to consumers in the U.S. That shouted question and the assumptions implicit in it stimulated the author's imagination. A young woman asked the crowd, 'Who made your T-shirt?' before she described worldwide labor abuses and mistreatment of garment workers.

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