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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
c2012.
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| Edition: | Rev. and updated. |
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- 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.