The fourth chapter is our introduction to China. it is here we learn more about cotton processing. We are reminded that nothing is as simple as it seems.There are many steps taken between harvesting raw cotton and making t-shirts. There are many forms of cotton itself. This point is nicely made by comparing what the general term cotton means to specialists and what snow means to Eskimos. To experts,cotton itself means little.
Chapter 6 focuses on the labor side of making a t-shirt. Pietra makes the point that globalization and activists combine to improve labor standards. As an example, many poor people much preferred working in the mills than on the farms. Also, countries that at one point were big mill countries are now very successful in other jobs. And labor laws are much improved in those countries, at least partially due to the unfair labor practices that had to be put up with in most mills.
Chapter 4 of this book is mainly about the subsidies that cotton farmers receive from the government. A subsidy is money that the government gives to farmers to assist them or tax breaks so farmers will want to continue to do their job. These subsidies are the reason that the United States is the main cotton producer. It is unfair that the United States is the main cotton producer because of all of the money that they receive from the government. When the Farm Bill expired, the government made an unexpected decision to cut back on subsidies given to cotton farmers.
(Chater 7) -Cotton mill is a largely profitable product because people need clothes. -Hukou was a place household registration -The chinese government limits everything for the chinese people and mostly the floaters
Chapter six of this book focuses on the labor part of making a t-shirt. The author discusses how globalization and activists combine to improve labor standards. Rural people preferred to work in the mills rather than on farms.They divide the gap between poor sweatshops and rich consumers. Countries that were once successful in the mill industry are now becoming successful in other industries. Labor laws have improved in those countries due to unjust labor practices.
Chapter 6: This Chapter puts a major focus on the labor part of the process of making a t-shirt. Globalization and activists combined to start an awakening for working conditions. Labor laws were placed in counties around the world. Much of the rural society prefered to work in the mills, rather than the farms due to the unjust labor laws that were improved in the mills of those countries. This caused the quality of the average factory worker to improve, which also made the quality of the production better.
Nader Yehia- Chapter four mainly states how cotton farmers in the U.S. receive subsidies from the government. A subsidy is money the government gives to farmers and business owners to help them. Farmers can also receive tax breaks, a tax advantage from the government. The U.S. is unfairly the main cotton producer in the world. The reason the U.S. is unfairly the main cotton producer in the world is because they receive so much tax benefits from the government (subsidies).
Chapter six expanded on the dividing gap between the poor sweatshop workers of the East and the rich consumers of the west. The industrial, globalization, and capitalist movement was a result of the industrial revolution. Countries such as China, New England, Japan, and Britain were able to economically benefit from the innovation brought forth from the industrial revolution. Since the countries were able to mass produce product efficiently more workers with little skill were required. The individuals who became part of the workforce were mostly children, women, and in some areas immigrants.
Wendy Arias: Chapter 6, “ The Long Race to the Bottom” was mainly about how many developed countries are rising to the top, while those who create the products have to race to the bottom in order to survive. For example, people are forced to work under unimaginable circumstances in order to make a T-shirt and eventually a CEO or someone with high authority buys the shirts at a cheap price and sells them in economies like ours for expensive prices. People that make these shirts go through many hardships because they are unaware of how much their labor is worth.
Chapter 4: "A God's Danger Ain't the Subsidies" This chapter discusses selling cotton and the improvements in cotton production.It also talks about the cottonseed flour and what it's used for. Cottonseed flour is found in products such as breads, cakes and cookies. Cottonseed will contain 150 pounds of "linters'. A linter is the short fibers clinging to cotton seeds after ginning.This chapter also talks about subsidies which is a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.
In chapter 4 it talked about the Subsidies, the monopoly in the cotton industry and in the Cotton seed oil industry. Cotton seed oil comes from cotton seeds are used in various snack foods. The United States gives out subsidies to the cotton farmers which makes it more productive, and also makes us one of the most productive cotton growers in the world.
Chapter 4 Discusses the Cotton Gin, improvement in cotton production. The cottonseed flour is found in bread, cakes, and cookies. Cottonseed also contains about 150 pounds of "linters", short fibers from cotton seeds after ginning. USA is the most powerful in the cotton producing business for over 50 years. With the help of subsidies.
Chapter 7- Sisters in Time- In order to control population and labor opportunities, the Chinese government created the hukou system. The hukou system is a form of household registration, in where one person will always belong to a house in the country, for example, and can never live in the city, or move to a another house, even if that person works in a factory inside the city. Despite the fact that sweatshops use this system to their advantage, most Chinese women prefer the factories to farm work. As for the countries that have lost the race to the bottom, they now have the most advanced economies in the world. However all of these economies started as sweatshop economies.
chapter (6) - globalization and activist combine to improve labor standards -former mill countries are now more successful in other countries -labor laws are improved in those countries due to unjust labor laws this chapter focuses on labor laws and how they improve. also how mill countries became more successful.
Chapter seven elaborates on the Chinese government controlling workers in ways that are bad for human rights but great for the production T-Shirts. The workers also work long hours, low pay, and awful working conditions. They work 25 percent more hours and earn 40 percent less. The Chinese government limits the rights of many factory workers most of the known as floaters, by using a labor system called Hukou. Hukou is a registration that specifies where you live no matter where you are. 70 to 80 percent of the workers are “floating people” and registered to Hukou which means they bring their labor to the city but could not stay in the city to live there.
Chapter 7 "Sisters in time" The cotton mill and sweatshops are the most successful in the world because most dropouts depend on those type of jobs for their future. China government has a labor system called Hukou which is a household registration where the people who worked in the city belonged to just that one house. The Huko system limits and defines the life of a Chinese citizen.
Chapter 6 focuses on the divergent line between the work industries. The rich consumers from the West and the poor sweatshop workers from the East became a big deal. Mill countries are now becoming more successful due to the many people who preferred to work in mills rather than work in farms. They disliked working at these farms because of the unfair labor practices. Now, labor laws have improved since then.
Ana Marin Chapter 7 Chapter 7 talked about the cotton mill, sweatshop, and the China government. The China government had a labor system called Hukou that had people working a lot and being paid poorly. They treated the people in china like slaves, so those that migrant risk not only economic failure but also detention and worse under China's regulations. People that were under the China custody of the government and lived in the C&R centers didn't have much freedom and when it came down to visitors the visitor would be card for identification. So it was mainly about how the china government ran things.
Chelsea Razaqi Chapter 4 Talked about the Subsidies, monopoly of the cotton industry and about the cottonseed oil industry. Cotton seed oil is from cotton seeds which are used in many snack foods today. To be more productive, the United States gives out subsides. It makes the United States one of the most productive cotton growing countries in the world.
Ruby Torres Chapter 7 consists of The Chinese government controls workers in a way that is terrible for human rights, but they don't care because it's doing the production of shirts good. The cotton mill and the sweater shops are the ones that are to be more successful in the world because most dropouts depend on those types of jobs. China government has a labor system called Huko, it is a household registration it didn't matter where they worked or lived. China limits everything for the floaters.
This chapter discusses the subsidies that come along with growing cotton. A subsidy is a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive. Some examples of this are when the Crop Disaster Program reimburses farmers for losses due to unusual weather or related conditions.
This chapter also discusses cottonseed oil and how it used to make snack foods and other similar items.
chapter 7 is about china's comparative advantage, yet while the sheer number of jiang lans, as well as their low wages, are often put forth to explain china's dominance in light manufacturing. lee found poor working conditions.
Chapter 7 takes a toll on the fatal and severe conditions, the cotton industry, workers in China are exposed to as a result of a system named Hukuo. "The rural hukuo defines and limits the worker's life in Shangai." As stated in the book, the people of Shangai were forced to work 25 percent more hours per week while earning 40 percent less than those with urban hukuos. These regulations varied throughout China some being managed more severely. Today China's workers are still receiving low pay, working long hours, and living in poor conditions. It is apparent that every country is willing to sacrifice even their own people to triumph among all the other competing countries.
In Chapter 6, “ The Long Race to the Bottom” focused mainly on the development of countries that were trying to rise to the top, whereas, the producers that produced these goods had to take the advantage of acquiring a job even if it meant low paying wage. These workers had to accept those jobs in order to survive. While these workers were working at a low pay, those with higher authority would end up buying those goods and selling them for more than they were actually worth. For example, a Nike shoe would only cost one $5 to make, but once a CEO buys them they’ll eventually sell them to the consumers for about $70 or even more.
Brenda Lopez Chapter 4 discusses the impact farmers in Texas had on the cotton market. U.S cotton farmers strengthened their political influence to manage every business risk to shape the world. When the farm bill expired in 2007 the political spectrum stopped giving farmers subsidies (sums of money granted by the government). Cotton growers then thought of the goverment as an issue and not a solution.
Mohammed Abdullah -Chapter 4 of this book is mainly about the subsidies that cotton farmers collect from the government. Basically it is money from the government that is given to most farmers to help them on most taxes so farmers will have to enjoy their jobs and also would want to continue to do their job. These are the reason that the United States is the main cotton producer. It is not fair that the US is one of the main country of cotton producer because of the significant money they receive from the government.
Basically the information i gathered up for chapter six was mainly about Globalization, activists combining labor standards, former mill countries who have been having the opportunities becoming successful in other industries, and dividing the poor sweat shops including rich consumers. Which labor laws have improved in those countries due to unjust labor practices. This has caused the quality of the average factory worker to improve, also made the quality of the production better.
Chapter 10 is about politics in global trade. More than 60% of apparel and textile manufacturing is located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.It is stated in Chapter 10 that U.S. textiles are decreasing and the government protects them. This chapter also discusses the historical bond within southern textile leaders. An important person to remember is Auggie Tantillo.
Chelsea Razaqi Chapter 11 I learned that free traders like Wal-Mart make it harder for new companies to grow. Since Wal-Mart supplies about 25% of the U.S. apparel market with good imported from abroad.Textiles are being replaced by mechanisms because they would choose to preserve jobs rather than mechanic. Due to them being replaced OTEXA protects textile manufactures from their foreign competition.
In chapter 9 , Pietra mentions “the master narrative, largely unquestioned since the early 1960’s or earlier, was that rich country protectionism for textiles and apparel was yet another example in the long history of rich countries tilting the playing field against poor countries through hypocritical policies.” But it seems that a mistake was made when designing textile trade policies. The field tilted the wrong way. In fact, when the idea of removing quotas got put on the table, many small countries who benefitted by illegally selling their quota space to China lobbied against it. In some cases they joined forces with the US textile lobbyists.
Chapter 11 is mainly about China having all the textile jobs. The textile jobs have been decreasing and will continue to decrease in the U.S even if they're being protected. The government had been trying to protect these textile jobs by lending money to the industry and setting quotas (limiting the amount of clothing imported from China), but there was little change.
Chapter 9- Returning to America The U.S. has lost more than half of its textile jobs to China. With this problem, new groups have risen to slow down and stop China. This group is led by Augie Tantilo . In order to slow down and destroy China's increasing monopoly, the government has passed new regulations and tariffs. This is due to the fact that T-shirts returning to America from China are hurting U.S. workers and business,
chapter.11 discusses how small entrepreneurs clothe some of east africa with old american r t-shirts. also how most countries don't want to trade cotton with the u.s because they are charging them with higher tariffs.textile and apparel manufacturing jobs have been ranking and will continue to vanish with or without protection from imports.
Chapter eleven is mainly talking about how small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with old American T- shirts. Started in Tanzania were there was used clothing market who were defined as mitumba. The trade in used clothing was very complicated, controversial, but there was a little evidence that African textile industries would grow but for the import trade in used textiles, and efforts to ban it only drive it underground. There was a chance that China may move into the U.S. used clothing export business due to reduced shipping costs to China. Which demonstrates that china is very intelligent in doing business because for the fact that they want to move U.S clothing export to reduce shipping costs so U.S would be more effectively buying their products.
chapter 11 poor countries don't want to trade with the U.S. because they are charging them them with higher tariffs so the poor counties aren't profiting. textile to apperal manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have been vanishing and will continue to do so . the jobs are being shipped to china. Most developing countries made an attempt to face and sad the quota system.
Chapter 9, "Returning to America" was about Chinese shirts versus American Jobs. It happens to be that the United States have lost many jobs due to the textile industry and cheap labor. What the Chinese did was send people known as lobbyers to Washington D.C to influence the people and also to make money. Much of these imports is affecting the U.S because people are unable to get jobs and also we are helping out those jobs because we are buying their cheap products. Additionally, Augie Tantillo, tried to stop these imports, and as a result government regulations were set and it helped slow down the process.
(Chapter 11) Textile and apparel manufacturing jobs in the U.S have been vanishing and will continue to vanish until we do quota or limited access through china on bringing clothing to united states so that we can actually gain our company's back.Also poor countries don't want to trade with the U.S because the tarriffs are higher and that results of the poor countries not profiting
Ch. 11 The U.S politicians have promised to keep jobs in the U.S yet have taken little to no action. While jobs have been save they have been saved mainly in Washington. Most of the U.S labor in textiles and factories is happening in China and other countries where labor is cheap. Consequently U.S employment in manufacturing is decrease while production is steady or in some cases rising. Overall the U.S government has demonstrated they are more interested in being beneficial to the factory and industry owners while the workers are abandoned.
Chapter 9, "Returning to America", is solely explaining to the reader that the U.S. had lost more than half of its textile jobs to China. This loss of jobs caused T-shirt's to return to America, therefore hurting U.S workers and businesses. The American people suffered with a great loss of jobs and businesses who focused on textile production suffered with decreasing profits. Auggie Tantillo was a person who did everything in his power to try and stop imports from China, he believed by doing this America would have more jobs to offer and overall increase production leading to better economy for the businesses and the United States as a whole.
-Chapter 10 of book this is mainly about politics and global trade. It talks about how it affected history. This chapter discusses GATT which is general agreement on tariffs and trade. It is a set of rules with free trade principles at it's core. It also talks about how the U.S textiles are protected by the government. Southern textile leaders share a culture and historical bond that allows them to speak together .
Chapter 9 international trade can be a difficult topic to discuss in the abstract, but when it is focused on a single product that makes its way around the world over the course of its usefulness, the unwieldy issue of globalization is made vividly clear. In The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, business professor Pietra Rivoli explores the politics and the human element behind the globalization debate by tracking the life story of $6 T-shirt.
Chapter eleven was mainly about U.S textile and manufacturing jobs overseas. They sent the jobs overseas because it benefited the U.S by making things cheaper on the other hand it also decreased jobs in the U.S. The protectionist trade regime has indeed saved thousands of jobs, the employment effect has largely been in washington among the armies of lobbyists and bureaucrats. Textile and apparel manufacturing jobs in the U.S have been vanishing over the years and will continue to vanish with or without protection from imports the jobs are being shipped to china.
Chapter 11 This chapter was about the influence of politics in redirecting trade.It also explains how cheap it is to import from china to the United States, and to protect textile manufactures.Lastly it shows how traders like walmart makes it harder for other companies to grow because of the cheap prices
Chapter ten consists of politics in global trade and the history of the government protecting textile industries. GATT is also mentioned which is a general agreement on tariffs and trade. GATT is a set of principles with free trade. U.S. jobs in textiles are decreasing. Southern textile leaders shape a cultural and historical bond that allows them to speak together. More than 60% of apparel and textile manufacturing is located in the South.
Chapter 11: "Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-shirt Trade policy" This chapter mainly talks about textiles and how they're being replaced by new mechanisms. They would rather have a machine do a mechanic's job. It also talks about how cheap it is to import from China to the U.S. The last thing they talk about is Otexa and how it protects the domestic textile an apparel manufactures from foreign competition.
chapter 10 is basically a dominance of politics in trades-size, textile and opponent manufacturing. The united state textile jobs is definitely decreasing, because technology is improving and when that happen people like us have a low possibility of getting a job. when new things like machines are invented some robotic technology have the ability to work just like a human beings.
Chelsea Guaydacan Chapter 11 is about how poor countries don't want to trade with the United States because they are being charged with higher tariffs and aren't profiting enough because of it. It is also about how textile and manufacturing jobs in the United States are decreasing. The reason for this is because technology continues to rise in the United States so there is less demand for human workers. Also because the U.S. doesn't want to pay workers so all of the manufacturing jobs are out of the country where labor is cheap.
Chapter 11 focuses mainly on the tariffs that the U.S. places on other countries. Poor countries don’t want to trade with the U.S. because of these tariffs. These countries tend to not profit when trading with the U.S. because of these tariffs. It also mentions the fact that textile and manufacturing jobs in the U.S. are declining and they will continue to because of advances in technology and machinery. The fact that most corporations are manufacturing their goods in other countries so they don't have to pay high wages takes a lot of those possible American factory jobs away as well.
Chapter 10 Politics Of Trade explains the first factor dominating in politics in the trade of the size of the textile and apparel manufacturing base, even today. Another factor that lends support to the regime is that the American public is nervous about trade, mainly because they believe to have severe effects on small American communities. Government also protects textiles but textile jobs are decreasing.
between 2000 and 2007 the U.S textile and apparel industries lost more than one-half of their remaining jobs and looming on auggies horizon and on the horizon of manufacturers every where is the china threat as well as new set of rule to take for in 2009
Consequences of T-shirt Trade Policy Chapter 11 Textiles jobs are being replaced by new mechanisms created in foreign countries because of that the workers will lose their jobs and now have to find other jobs that will be willing to employ them. Walmart supplies 25 percent of the U.S. market with it's goods. OTEXA(Office Textiles and Apparels) protects the domestic textile and apparel manufactures from foreign competition. The riches to the poor countries face disproportionate tariff barrier meaning they rely on the poor countries exports on clothing/textiles. China is one of the main unrestraining sources of import of the U.S. which will probably dominate the the global trade.
Chapter 9, "Returning to America", is giving the reader a broad explanation of how the U.S. had lost more than half of its textile jobs to China. The loss of these textile jobs mainly caused the T-shirt’s to be sent back to America; as a result, the U.S. workers and businesses were being hurt. While the workers were tormented by the loss of jobs, businesses were suffering on their decrease in profits. Auggie Tantillo, an individual who did everything to try and stop imports from China, clearly believed that by his doings, America would have more jobs to offer and businesses would have an increase in profit. After some time China started slowing down due to the help of the government and tariffs.
Chapter 11 states why poor countries do not want to trade with the U.S. because of the tariffs they are charged. Tariffs are taxes on foreign goods. The U.S. charges countries with high tariffs. When the U.S. charges these poor countries with high tariffs, it causes them to not profit. Chapter 11 also mentions how innovation in technology in manufacturing jobs has caused plenty of people to be cut.
In chapter 15 it states that some countries tend to ban trading and buying clothes throughout prohibition. Barriers to the mitumba trade take in large measure and it has been created by the groans of the local textile industry. Bad governance is vigorous and the mitumba trade is a failure to the entreprenuieral energy and resourcefulness of the African people.
Chapter 13 -Africa buys 25 cents per pound of cotton while the united states buy 80 cents per pound. Also T-shirts can't be used as anything other than a rag after its torn and stained. -Stubins bought clothing from charities, the business changed from a sorting operation to a mining operation. -The more Americans throw away clothes, the richer the U.S becomes because they re-use the clothes to make rags.
Chapter 13 talks about how the U.S gets clothing from charities and sells them. Vintage clothing has the highest value. Clothing thrown away by Americans forms the backbone of a dynamic global industry. When T-shirts have a tear or a stain, they get thrown away and then get repurposed or reused. T-shirts can't be used as anything other than rags after they've been torn or stained because it no longer has value.
Chapter 10, "Dogs Snarling Together", is about politics in global trade and the history of the government protecting textile industries.More than 60% of apparel and textile manufacturing is located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. GATT is also mentioned which is a general agreement on tariffs and trade. GATT is a set of principles with free trade. U.S. jobs in textiles are decreasing. This chapter also mentions Auggie Tantillo and he is an important person to remember because he helped a lot.
Chapter 10 talked about the political and global trade. The politics of trade was a factor of the textile. Also about the general agreement tariffs and how they set the main rule of free trade.
Chapter 14 talks about how countries such as calcutta and Tanzania, how they are infested with poverty. These countries are exploded by other countries such as Britain. Most of the children were nude. It was hard for them to import clothing, mismanagement that the local textile industries were poorly equipped to supply items to the market. Prices in east Africa clothing are cheap compared to other countries.
Chapter thirteen talks about people donating/ throwing away their clothing and from there the used clothing becomes the backbone of a dynamic global industry. The more clothing thrown away the richer the United States becomes. Also Stubins buy clothing from charities and then the business changes from sorting operation to mining operation, “Vintage Clothing” has the highest value. Japan demands is limited to high end and quirky items. Lastly Africa pays 25 cents per pound of cotton while the U.S. pay 80 cents. T-Shirts can’t be used as anything other than rags after they've been torn.
Chapter 13 - Where T-shirts Go After the Salvation Army This chapter discusses where clothing goes after it reaches places like the Salvation Army. The U.S. ships used to countries like Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia. Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly 9 billion lbs of used clothing to the rest of the world. This chapter also discusses Trans-Americas Trading Company.
Chapter 14 Some countries or economically flourishing others such as Tanzania are infested with poverty. Such country is exploited by other countries as Britain. Therefore while Britain is a prosperous countries in rural Tanzania, adults are found in clothed in rags and children are mostly naked. While there are small entrepreneurs who sell clothing, they sell second-hand clothes cheaply priced. There is also the presence of currency controls which means that hard currency was rarely available to import clothing, mismanagement that the local textile industry was poorly equipped to supply local market.
.Chapter 13 US Ships used clothes to countries like poland, the ukraine and russia.Uses the transamerica trading company, and 85 employees will process about 85,000 pounds.Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly 9 billions of used clothing to the world.
Chapter 15 Chapter fifteen discusses the ban, by more than thirty countries, on imports of used clothing through outright prohibitions. Africa has a better operating system than it used to. SMART's efforts and to general trend toward liberalization in most countries.
Chelsea Guaydacan Chapter 15 is about how importing certain things such as used clothing. These imports of used clothing through outright prohibitions was banned in 30 countries. It is also about how Africa has a better operating system than it used to. Lastly it is about SMART's efforts. All in all it is about how the ban was effective and stopped the import of used clothing.
Chapter 13: "Where T-shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin" Chapter 13 discusses things like where our hand me downs go. The U.S. ships used clothes to countries like Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia. Eighty-five employees process 70,000 pounds of clothing. Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly nine billion pounds of used clothing to the rest of the world. They are usually donated to thrift stores.
Chapter 13 As the t-shirt business grew another businesses grew along with it.The used t-shirt business began expanding as more middle class and high class family began donating old t-shirts to local charities. The used t-shirt business actually functions in an independent economy because it isn't affected by government policies and regulations. This forces the business to be quick and alert to changes in the market. The used t-shirt businesses sell both locally and globally and even sell special t-shirts that are classified as vintage or concert shirts.
It talks about how Africa has a better operating system than it used to.It also talks about the ban in more than thirty countries, on imports of used clothing through outright prohibitions. SMART's efforts and to general trend toward liberalization in most countries.
Chapter 15, "Mitumba: Friend or Foe To Africa", gives information on how some countries tend to band trading and buying clothes throughout prohibition. More than 30 countries effect the outright. There is smarts efforts to general trend toward liberalization in most countries. Africa has a better operating system than it used to.
Joanna Ramos Chapter 11 Chapter 11, “Perserverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade poilcy”, is basically about the downfall of employment. It states that because of so much technology taking over, there are now less jobs and less workers. Also, the U.S leaders have promised to make a change about the shipping to other countries but of course there has only been little change so once again, the upper economic class remains winning.
Chapter 13 Where T-Shirts Go After The Salvation Army Bin Rich Americans see old used up clothes as garbage while the rest of the world sees it as treasures that can be reused again like in weddings, or in other clothing products. Prices go higher when castoffs come from wealthier neighborhood and lower when they generate less cast offs. clothing is sorted into three basic categories which are clothing,wiping rags, and fiber. With this process they make easy profits that attracts competitors. This chapter overall answers what happens to the clothes after we worn them are they could be thrown away,given to charities, or reusable and the profits they make off their clothing.
Chapter fifteen is about the importation of goods such as used clothing. It also involves efforts by SMART. The importing of used clothing has been banned in over thirty countries. In conclusion, this chapter shows how this ban was effective and that it stopped the importing of used clothing.
In chapter 15 Pietra explains how Mitumba is one of the most flourishing textile industries in Africa. She also explains one of the main reasons why Africa struggles to keep up with other countries that have textile industries. The main reason Africa is so behind is the lack of technology. They don't have as much ways to get this new technology as other counties.
Chapter 13, "Where T-Shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin" discusses the high wages that have caused the demise of the U.S. textile and apparel manufacturing flip side. These wages are the ones that have stripped America's manufacturing which have led to their comparative advantage. The heart of this business is the trade with Africa, where the exploding supply of castoffs from the rich meet the incessant demand for clothing from the poor. This chapter discusses where the t-shirts that are manufactured go after being used and the different ways in which they dispose of them.
chapter 14 is about though tarzania is one of the poorest countries, in the world , the poverty is not one of frenetic wretchedness as one finds in calcutta or nairobi, the socialist dream is in shambles crumbling like the colonial building left by the british.the higher end manitoba stalls boast this year's fashions, tastefully displayed but the perfect dockers in 2003 were priced at $5.00
Chapter 15 is mainly about importing certain things such as used clothing. More than 30 countries effectively ban the import of used clothing outright prohibition. It also talks about how Africa has improved their operating system. Also it is about SMART's efforts.
In chapter fourteen discusses that countries economically have been flourishing others such as “Tanzania” who are infested with poverty. The presence of currency controls which means that hard currency was rarely available to import clothing. Also describes how small Entrepreneurs effictively sold clothes, in particular second hand-clothes. Explains how adults were found in clothes in rags and children always been without clothing basically “naked.” Britain surprisely was a prosperous country in rural Tanzania.
Chapter 15 mentions efforts by SMARTS. It also talks about how more than 30 countries effectively ban the import of used clothing. This ban was effective. The chapter mainly talks about the importation of goods.
chapter 13 the saluation army at one time tried to sell all of the clothing in its stores or to give it away but the supply now so for outrips domentric demand that only a fraction.the first three vehicles alone cost well over $100,000 which would by about one-tenth of a house in much of the surrounding neighborhood.
Chapter 15, "Mitumba: Friend or Foe To Africa", is about banning the import of used clothing outright prohibitions in more than 30 countries. The barriers to this Mitumba trade have been erected by the local textile industry. Chinese T-shirts threatened Americans in 2008 and the British were threatened by the Indian cottons in 1720. SMARTS efforts to general trend toward liberization in most countries and Africa has a way better operating system than it used to.
Chapter Fourteen discusses how some countries were economically successful; moreover, other countries like Tanzania were in a manifestation with poverty. Since Tanzania was categorized as a rural place with poverty, it was oppressed by other countries, for example, Britain. As a result, Britain was seen as a flourishing country, whereas, Tanzania, was seen as a place of poverty due to the founding of adults in rags of clothes and children half naked. While small entrepreneurs sold clothing, some would tend to sell second-hand clothes at an affordable price.
Chapter 15 explains how some countries are being rather successful, while places like Mitumba is undergoing poverty and also their means of clothing transportation. It also explains why countries such as Africa are struggling to keep up with their textile industries. One of the many reasons is due to the lack of technology, reason being that they don’t have the means to get their hands on certain luxuries that others are able to obtain. It also involves efforts by SMART, which is the importing of used clothing has been banned in over thirty countries. Overall, this chapter shows how this ban was effective and that it stopped the importation of used clothing.
Chapter 13 focuses on discarded and/or donated clothes. U.S. sent used clothes to countries like Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. Used clothing gets obtained from charities and is then sold by the U.S. The more people donate and/or throw away their clothes, the richer the U.S becomes. Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly 9 billion lbs of used clothing to the rest of the world.
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ReplyDeleteThe fourth chapter is our introduction to China. it is here we learn more about cotton processing. We are reminded that nothing is as simple as it seems.There are many steps taken between harvesting raw cotton and making t-shirts. There are many forms of cotton itself. This point is nicely made by comparing what the general term cotton means to specialists and what snow means to Eskimos. To experts,cotton itself means little.
ReplyDeleteChapter 6 focuses on the labor side of making a t-shirt. Pietra makes the point that globalization and activists combine to improve labor standards. As an example, many poor people much preferred working in the mills than on the farms. Also, countries that at one point were big mill countries are now very successful in other jobs. And labor laws are much improved in those countries, at least partially due to the unfair labor practices that had to be put up with in most mills.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Guaydacan
ReplyDeleteChapter 4 of this book is mainly about the subsidies that cotton farmers receive from the government. A subsidy is money that the government gives to farmers to assist them or tax breaks so farmers will want to continue to do their job. These subsidies are the reason that the United States is the main cotton producer. It is unfair that the United States is the main cotton producer because of all of the money that they receive from the government. When the Farm Bill expired, the government made an unexpected decision to cut back on subsidies given to cotton farmers.
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ReplyDelete-Cotton mill is a largely profitable product because people need clothes.
-Hukou was a place household registration
-The chinese government limits everything for the chinese people and mostly the floaters
They are good main points, but you need to explain them better so that others who did not read the chapter understand chapter 7.
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ReplyDeleteChapter 6
Chapter six of this book focuses on the labor part of making a t-shirt. The author discusses how globalization and activists combine to improve labor standards. Rural people preferred to work in the mills rather than on farms.They divide the gap between poor sweatshops and rich consumers. Countries that were once successful in the mill industry are now becoming successful in other industries. Labor laws have improved in those countries due to unjust labor practices.
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ReplyDeleteThis Chapter puts a major focus on the labor part of the process of making a t-shirt. Globalization and activists combined to start an awakening for working conditions. Labor laws were placed in counties around the world. Much of the rural society prefered to work in the mills, rather than the farms due to the unjust labor laws that were improved in the mills of those countries. This caused the quality of the average factory worker to improve, which also made the quality of the production better.
Nader Yehia-
ReplyDeleteChapter four mainly states how cotton farmers in the U.S. receive subsidies from the government. A subsidy is money the government gives to farmers and business owners to help them. Farmers can also receive tax breaks, a tax advantage from the government. The U.S. is unfairly the main cotton producer in the world. The reason the U.S. is unfairly the main cotton producer in the world is because they receive so much tax benefits from the government (subsidies).
Good point.
DeleteChapter six expanded on the dividing gap between the poor sweatshop workers of the East and the rich consumers of the west. The industrial, globalization, and capitalist movement was a result of the industrial revolution. Countries such as China, New England, Japan, and Britain were able to economically benefit from the innovation brought forth from the industrial revolution. Since the countries were able to mass produce product efficiently more workers with little skill were required. The individuals who became part of the workforce were mostly children, women, and in some areas immigrants.
ReplyDeleteGood Summary
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ReplyDeleteChapter 6, “ The Long Race to the Bottom” was mainly about how many developed countries are rising to the top, while those who create the products have to race to the bottom in order to survive. For example, people are forced to work under unimaginable circumstances in order to make a T-shirt and eventually a CEO or someone with high authority buys the shirts at a cheap price and sells them in economies like ours for expensive prices. People that make these shirts go through many hardships because they are unaware of how much their labor is worth.
Very good summary.
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ReplyDelete"A God's Danger Ain't the Subsidies"
This chapter discusses selling cotton and the improvements in cotton production.It also talks about the cottonseed flour and what it's used for. Cottonseed flour is found in products such as breads, cakes and cookies. Cottonseed will contain 150 pounds of "linters'. A linter is the short fibers clinging to cotton seeds after ginning.This chapter also talks about subsidies which is a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.
Chaper 4
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 4 it talked about the Subsidies, the monopoly in the cotton industry and in the Cotton seed oil industry. Cotton seed oil comes from cotton seeds are used in various snack foods. The United States gives out subsidies to the cotton farmers which makes it more productive, and also makes us one of the most productive cotton growers in the world.
Chapter 4
ReplyDeleteDiscusses the Cotton Gin, improvement in cotton production.
The cottonseed flour is found in bread, cakes, and cookies.
Cottonseed also contains about 150 pounds of "linters", short fibers from cotton seeds after ginning.
USA is the most powerful in the cotton producing business for over 50 years.
With the help of subsidies.
Chapter 7- Sisters in Time-
ReplyDeleteIn order to control population and labor opportunities, the Chinese government created the hukou system. The hukou system is a form of household registration, in where one person will always belong to a house in the country, for example, and can never live in the city, or move to a another house, even if that person works in a factory inside the city. Despite the fact that sweatshops use this system to their advantage, most Chinese women prefer the factories to farm work. As for the countries that have lost the race to the bottom, they now have the most advanced economies in the world. However all of these economies started as sweatshop economies.
good explanation of the hukou system.
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ReplyDelete- globalization and activist combine to improve labor standards
-former mill countries are now more successful in other countries
-labor laws are improved in those countries due to unjust labor laws
this chapter focuses on labor laws and how they improve. also how mill countries became more successful.
Marlen Velazquez Chapter Seven
ReplyDeleteChapter seven elaborates on the Chinese government controlling workers in ways that are bad for human rights but great for the production T-Shirts. The workers also work long hours, low pay, and awful working conditions. They work 25 percent more hours and earn 40 percent less. The Chinese government limits the rights of many factory workers most of the known as floaters, by using a labor system called Hukou. Hukou is a registration that specifies where you live no matter where you are. 70 to 80 percent of the workers are “floating people” and registered to Hukou which means they bring their labor to the city but could not stay in the city to live there.
Chapter 7 "Sisters in time"
ReplyDeleteThe cotton mill and sweatshops are the most successful in the world because most dropouts depend on those type of jobs for their future. China government has a labor system called Hukou which is a household registration where the people who worked in the city belonged to just that one house. The Huko system limits and defines the life of a Chinese citizen.
Joanna Ramos Chapter 6
ReplyDeleteChapter 6 focuses on the divergent line between the work industries. The rich consumers from the West and the poor sweatshop workers from the East became a big deal. Mill countries are now becoming more successful due to the many people who preferred to work in mills rather than work in farms. They disliked working at these farms because of the unfair labor practices. Now, labor laws have improved since then.
Ana Marin Chapter 7
ReplyDeleteChapter 7 talked about the cotton mill, sweatshop, and the China government. The China government had a labor system called Hukou that had people working a lot and being paid poorly. They treated the people in china like slaves, so those that migrant risk not only economic failure but also detention and worse under China's regulations. People that were under the China custody of the government and lived in the C&R centers didn't have much freedom and when it came down to visitors the visitor would be card for identification. So it was mainly about how the china government ran things.
Chelsea Razaqi Chapter 4
ReplyDeleteTalked about the Subsidies, monopoly of the cotton industry and about the cottonseed oil industry. Cotton seed oil is from cotton seeds which are used in many snack foods today. To be more productive, the United States gives out subsides. It makes the United States one of the most productive cotton growing countries in the world.
Ruby Torres
ReplyDeleteChapter 7 consists of The Chinese government controls workers in a way that is terrible for human rights, but they don't care because it's doing the production of shirts good. The cotton mill and the sweater shops are the ones that are to be more successful in the world because most dropouts depend on those types of jobs. China government has a labor system called Huko, it is a household registration it didn't matter where they worked or lived. China limits everything for the floaters.
This chapter discusses the subsidies that come along with growing cotton. A subsidy is a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive. Some examples of this are when the Crop Disaster Program reimburses farmers for losses due to unusual weather or related conditions.
ReplyDeleteThis chapter also discusses cottonseed oil and how it used to make snack foods and other similar items.
Chapter 4
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ReplyDeleteis about china's comparative advantage, yet while the sheer number of jiang lans, as well as their low wages, are often put forth to explain china's dominance in light manufacturing. lee found poor working conditions.
Chapter 7 takes a toll on the fatal and severe conditions, the cotton industry, workers in China are exposed to as a result of a system named Hukuo. "The rural hukuo defines and limits the worker's life in Shangai." As stated in the book, the people of Shangai were forced to work 25 percent more hours per week while earning 40 percent less than those with urban hukuos. These regulations varied throughout China some being managed more severely. Today China's workers are still receiving low pay, working long hours, and living in poor conditions. It is apparent that every country is willing to sacrifice even their own people to triumph among all the other competing countries.
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DeleteIn Chapter 6, “ The Long Race to the Bottom” focused mainly on the development of countries that were trying to rise to the top, whereas, the producers that produced these goods had to take the advantage of acquiring a job even if it meant low paying wage. These workers had to accept those jobs in order to survive. While these workers were working at a low pay, those with higher authority would end up buying those goods and selling them for more than they were actually worth. For example, a Nike shoe would only cost one $5 to make, but once a CEO buys them they’ll eventually sell them to the consumers for about $70 or even more.
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ReplyDeleteChapter 4 discusses the impact farmers in Texas had on the cotton market. U.S cotton farmers strengthened their political influence to manage every business risk to shape the world. When the farm bill expired in 2007 the political spectrum stopped giving farmers subsidies (sums of money granted by the government). Cotton growers then thought of the goverment as an issue and not a solution.
Mohammed Abdullah
ReplyDelete-Chapter 4 of this book is mainly about the subsidies that cotton farmers collect from the government. Basically it is money from the government that is given to most farmers to help them on most taxes so farmers will have to enjoy their jobs and also would want to continue to do their job. These are the reason that the United States is the main cotton producer. It is not fair that the US is one of the main country of cotton producer because of the significant money they receive from the government.
Basically the information i gathered up for chapter six was mainly about Globalization, activists combining labor standards, former mill countries who have been having the opportunities becoming successful in other industries, and dividing the poor sweat shops including rich consumers. Which labor laws have improved in those countries due to unjust labor practices. This has caused the quality of the average factory worker to improve, also made the quality of the production better.
ReplyDeleteChapter 10 is about politics in global trade. More than 60% of apparel and textile manufacturing is located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.It is stated in Chapter 10 that U.S. textiles are decreasing and the government protects them. This chapter also discusses the historical bond within southern textile leaders. An important person to remember is Auggie Tantillo.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Razaqi Chapter 11
ReplyDeleteI learned that free traders like Wal-Mart make it harder for new companies to grow. Since Wal-Mart supplies about 25% of the U.S. apparel market with good imported from abroad.Textiles are being replaced by mechanisms because they would choose to preserve jobs rather than mechanic. Due to them being replaced OTEXA protects textile manufactures from their foreign competition.
In chapter 9 , Pietra mentions “the master narrative, largely unquestioned since the early 1960’s or earlier, was that rich country protectionism for textiles and apparel was yet another example in the long history of rich countries tilting the playing field against poor countries through hypocritical policies.” But it seems that a mistake was made when designing textile trade policies. The field tilted the wrong way. In fact, when the idea of removing quotas got put on the table, many small countries who benefitted by illegally selling their quota space to China lobbied against it. In some cases they joined forces with the US textile lobbyists.
ReplyDeleteChapter 11 is mainly about China having all the textile jobs. The textile jobs have been decreasing and will continue to decrease in the U.S even if they're being protected. The government had been trying to protect these textile jobs by lending money to the industry and setting quotas (limiting the amount of clothing imported from China), but there was little change.
ReplyDeleteChapter 9- Returning to America
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. has lost more than half of its textile jobs to China. With this problem, new groups have risen to slow down and stop China. This group is led by Augie Tantilo . In order to slow down and destroy China's increasing monopoly, the government has passed new regulations and tariffs. This is due to the fact that T-shirts returning to America from China are hurting U.S. workers and business,
chapter.11 discusses how small entrepreneurs clothe some of east africa with old american r t-shirts. also how most countries don't want to trade cotton with the u.s because they are charging them with higher tariffs.textile and apparel manufacturing jobs have been ranking and will continue to vanish with or without protection from imports.
ReplyDeleteChapter eleven is mainly talking about how small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with old American T- shirts. Started in Tanzania were there was used clothing market who were defined as mitumba. The trade in used clothing was very complicated, controversial, but there was a little evidence that African textile industries would grow but for the import trade in used textiles, and efforts to ban it only drive it underground. There was a chance that China may move into the U.S. used clothing export business due to reduced shipping costs to China. Which demonstrates that china is very intelligent in doing business because for the fact that they want to move U.S clothing export to reduce shipping costs so U.S would be more effectively buying their products.
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ReplyDeletepoor countries don't want to trade with the U.S. because they are charging them them with higher tariffs so the poor counties aren't profiting. textile to apperal manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have been vanishing and will continue to do so . the jobs are being shipped to china. Most developing countries made an attempt to face and sad the quota system.
Chapter 9, "Returning to America" was about Chinese shirts versus American Jobs. It happens to be that the United States have lost many jobs due to the textile industry and cheap labor. What the Chinese did was send people known as lobbyers to Washington D.C to influence the people and also to make money. Much of these imports is affecting the U.S because people are unable to get jobs and also we are helping out those jobs because we are buying their cheap products. Additionally, Augie Tantillo, tried to stop these imports, and as a result government regulations were set and it helped slow down the process.
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ReplyDeleteTextile and apparel manufacturing jobs in the U.S have been vanishing and will continue to vanish until we do quota or limited access through china on bringing clothing to united states so that we can actually gain our company's back.Also poor countries don't want to trade with the U.S because the tarriffs are higher and that results of the poor countries not profiting
Ch. 11
ReplyDeleteThe U.S politicians have promised to keep jobs in the U.S yet have taken little to no action. While jobs have been save they have been saved mainly in Washington. Most of the U.S labor in textiles and factories is happening in China and other countries where labor is cheap. Consequently U.S employment in manufacturing is decrease while production is steady or in some cases rising. Overall the U.S government has demonstrated they are more interested in being beneficial to the factory and industry owners while the workers are abandoned.
Chapter 9, "Returning to America", is solely explaining to the reader that the U.S. had lost more than half of its textile jobs to China. This loss of jobs caused T-shirt's to return to America, therefore hurting U.S workers and businesses. The American people suffered with a great loss of jobs and businesses who focused on textile production suffered with decreasing profits. Auggie Tantillo was a person who did everything in his power to try and stop imports from China, he believed by doing this America would have more jobs to offer and overall increase production leading to better economy for the businesses and the United States as a whole.
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Delete-Chapter 10 of book this is mainly about politics and global trade. It talks about how it affected history. This chapter discusses GATT which is general agreement on tariffs and trade. It is a set of rules with free trade principles at it's core. It also talks about how the U.S textiles are protected by the government. Southern textile leaders share a culture and historical bond that allows them to speak together .
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ReplyDeleteinternational trade can be a difficult topic to discuss in the abstract, but when it is focused on a single product that makes its way around the world over the course of its usefulness, the unwieldy issue of globalization is made vividly clear. In The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, business professor Pietra Rivoli explores the politics and the human element behind the globalization debate by tracking the life story of $6 T-shirt.
Chapter eleven was mainly about U.S textile and manufacturing jobs overseas. They sent the jobs overseas because it benefited the U.S by making things cheaper on the other hand it also decreased jobs in the U.S. The protectionist trade regime has indeed saved thousands of jobs, the employment effect has largely been in washington among the armies of lobbyists and bureaucrats. Textile and apparel manufacturing jobs in the U.S have been vanishing over the years and will continue to vanish with or without protection from imports the jobs are being shipped to china.
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ReplyDeleteThis chapter was about the influence of politics in redirecting trade.It also explains how cheap it is to import from china to the United States, and to protect textile manufactures.Lastly it shows how traders like walmart makes it harder for other companies to grow because of the cheap prices
Chapter 10
ReplyDeleteChapter ten consists of politics in global trade and the history of the government protecting textile industries. GATT is also mentioned which is a general agreement on tariffs and trade. GATT is a set of principles with free trade. U.S. jobs in textiles are decreasing. Southern textile leaders shape a cultural and historical bond that allows them to speak together. More than 60% of apparel and textile manufacturing is located in the South.
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ReplyDelete"Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-shirt Trade policy"
This chapter mainly talks about textiles and how they're being replaced by new mechanisms. They would rather have a machine do a mechanic's job. It also talks about how cheap it is to import from China to the U.S. The last thing they talk about is Otexa and how it protects the domestic textile an apparel manufactures from foreign competition.
chapter 10 is basically a dominance of politics in trades-size, textile and opponent manufacturing. The united state textile jobs is definitely decreasing, because technology is improving and when that happen people like us have a low possibility of getting a job. when new things like machines are invented some robotic technology have the ability to work just like a human beings.
ReplyDeleteChelsea Guaydacan
ReplyDeleteChapter 11 is about how poor countries don't want to trade with the United States because they are being charged with higher tariffs and aren't profiting enough because of it. It is also about how textile and manufacturing jobs in the United States are decreasing. The reason for this is because technology continues to rise in the United States so there is less demand for human workers. Also because the U.S. doesn't want to pay workers so all of the manufacturing jobs are out of the country where labor is cheap.
Chapter 11 focuses mainly on the tariffs that the U.S. places on other countries. Poor countries don’t want to trade with the U.S. because of these tariffs. These countries tend to not profit when trading with the U.S. because of these tariffs. It also mentions the fact that textile and manufacturing jobs in the U.S. are declining and they will continue to because of advances in technology and machinery. The fact that most corporations are manufacturing their goods in other countries so they don't have to pay high wages takes a lot of those possible American factory jobs away as well.
ReplyDeleteChapter 10 Politics Of Trade explains the first factor dominating in politics in the trade of the size of the textile and apparel manufacturing base, even today. Another factor that lends support to the regime is that the American public is nervous about trade, mainly because they believe to have severe effects on small American communities.
ReplyDeleteGovernment also protects textiles but textile jobs are decreasing.
between 2000 and 2007 the U.S textile and apparel industries lost more than one-half of their remaining jobs and looming on auggies horizon and on the horizon of manufacturers every where is the china threat as well as new set of rule to take for in 2009
ReplyDeleteConsequences of T-shirt Trade Policy Chapter 11
ReplyDeleteTextiles jobs are being replaced by new mechanisms created in foreign countries because of that the workers will lose their jobs and now have to find other jobs that will be willing to employ them. Walmart supplies 25 percent of the U.S. market with it's goods. OTEXA(Office Textiles and Apparels) protects the domestic textile and apparel manufactures from foreign competition. The riches to the poor countries face disproportionate tariff barrier meaning they rely on the poor countries exports on clothing/textiles. China is one of the main unrestraining sources of import of the U.S. which will probably dominate the the global trade.
Chapter 9, "Returning to America", is giving the reader a broad explanation of how the U.S. had lost more than half of its textile jobs to China. The loss of these textile jobs mainly caused the T-shirt’s to be sent back to America; as a result, the U.S. workers and businesses were being hurt. While the workers were tormented by the loss of jobs, businesses were suffering on their decrease in profits. Auggie Tantillo, an individual who did everything to try and stop imports from China, clearly believed that by his doings, America would have more jobs to offer and businesses would have an increase in profit. After some time China started slowing down due to the help of the government and tariffs.
ReplyDeleteChapter 11 states why poor countries do not want to trade with the U.S. because of the tariffs they are charged. Tariffs are taxes on foreign goods. The U.S. charges countries with high tariffs. When the U.S. charges these poor countries with high tariffs, it causes them to not profit. Chapter 11 also mentions how innovation in technology in manufacturing jobs has caused plenty of people to be cut.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 15 it states that some countries tend to ban trading and buying clothes throughout prohibition. Barriers to the mitumba trade take in large measure and it has been created by the groans of the local textile industry. Bad governance is vigorous and the mitumba trade is a failure to the entreprenuieral energy and resourcefulness of the African people.
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ReplyDelete-Africa buys 25 cents per pound of cotton while the united states buy 80 cents per pound. Also T-shirts can't be used as anything other than a rag after its torn and stained.
-Stubins bought clothing from charities, the business changed from a sorting operation to a mining operation.
-The more Americans throw away clothes, the richer the U.S becomes because they re-use the clothes to make rags.
Chapter 13 talks about how the U.S gets clothing from charities and sells them. Vintage clothing has the highest value. Clothing thrown away by Americans forms the backbone of a dynamic global industry. When T-shirts have a tear or a stain, they get thrown away and then get repurposed or reused. T-shirts can't be used as anything other than rags after they've been torn or stained because it no longer has value.
ReplyDeleteChapter 10, "Dogs Snarling Together", is about politics in global trade and the history of the government protecting textile industries.More than 60% of apparel and textile manufacturing is located in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. GATT is also mentioned which is a general agreement on tariffs and trade. GATT is a set of principles with free trade. U.S. jobs in textiles are decreasing. This chapter also mentions Auggie Tantillo and he is an important person to remember because he helped a lot.
ReplyDeleteChapter 10 talked about the political and global trade. The politics of trade was a factor of the textile. Also about the general agreement tariffs and how they set the main rule of free trade.
ReplyDeleteChapter 14 talks about how countries such as calcutta and Tanzania, how they are infested with poverty. These countries are exploded by other countries such as Britain. Most of the children were nude. It was hard for them to import clothing, mismanagement that the local textile industries were poorly equipped to supply items to the market. Prices in east Africa clothing are cheap compared to other countries.
ReplyDeleteChapter thirteen talks about people donating/ throwing away their clothing and from there the used clothing becomes the backbone of a dynamic global industry. The more clothing thrown away the richer the United States becomes. Also Stubins buy clothing from charities and then the business changes from sorting operation to mining operation, “Vintage Clothing” has the highest value. Japan demands is limited to high end and quirky items. Lastly Africa pays 25 cents per pound of cotton while the U.S. pay 80 cents. T-Shirts can’t be used as anything other than rags after they've been torn.
ReplyDeleteChapter 13 - Where T-shirts Go After the Salvation Army
ReplyDeleteThis chapter discusses where clothing goes after it reaches places like the Salvation Army. The U.S. ships used to countries like Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia. Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly 9 billion lbs of used clothing to the rest of the world. This chapter also discusses Trans-Americas Trading Company.
Chapter 14
ReplyDeleteSome countries or economically flourishing others such as Tanzania are infested with poverty. Such country is exploited by other countries as Britain. Therefore while Britain is a prosperous countries in rural Tanzania, adults are found in clothed in rags and children are mostly naked. While there are small entrepreneurs who sell clothing, they sell second-hand clothes cheaply priced. There is also the presence of currency controls which means that hard currency was rarely available to import clothing, mismanagement that the local textile industry was poorly equipped to supply local market.
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ReplyDeleteUS Ships used clothes to countries like poland, the ukraine and russia.Uses the transamerica trading company, and 85 employees will process about 85,000 pounds.Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly 9 billions of used clothing to the world.
Chapter 15
ReplyDeleteChapter fifteen discusses the ban, by more than thirty countries, on imports of used clothing through outright prohibitions. Africa has a better operating system than it used to. SMART's efforts and to general trend toward liberalization in most countries.
Chelsea Guaydacan
ReplyDeleteChapter 15 is about how importing certain things such as used clothing. These imports of used clothing through outright prohibitions was banned in 30 countries. It is also about how Africa has a better operating system than it used to. Lastly it is about SMART's efforts. All in all it is about how the ban was effective and stopped the import of used clothing.
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ReplyDelete"Where T-shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin"
Chapter 13 discusses things like where our hand me downs go. The U.S. ships used clothes to countries like Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia. Eighty-five employees process 70,000 pounds of clothing. Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly nine billion pounds of used clothing to the rest of the world. They are usually donated to thrift stores.
Chapter 13
ReplyDeleteAs the t-shirt business grew another businesses grew along with it.The used t-shirt business began expanding as more middle class and high class family began donating old t-shirts to local charities. The used t-shirt business actually functions in an independent economy because it isn't affected by government policies and regulations. This forces the business to be quick and alert to changes in the market. The used t-shirt businesses sell both locally and globally and even sell special t-shirts that are classified as vintage or concert shirts.
Chelsea Razaqi Chapter 15
ReplyDeleteIt talks about how Africa has a better operating system than it used to.It also talks about the ban in more than thirty countries, on imports of used clothing through outright prohibitions. SMART's efforts and to general trend toward liberalization in most countries.
Chapter 15, "Mitumba: Friend or Foe To Africa", gives information on how some countries tend to band trading and buying clothes throughout prohibition. More than 30 countries effect the outright. There is smarts efforts to general trend toward liberalization in most countries. Africa has a better operating system than it used to.
ReplyDeleteJoanna Ramos Chapter 11
ReplyDeleteChapter 11, “Perserverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade poilcy”, is basically about the downfall of employment. It states that because of so much technology taking over, there are now less jobs and less workers. Also, the U.S leaders have promised to make a change about the shipping to other countries but of course there has only been little change so once again, the upper economic class remains winning.
Chapter 13 Where T-Shirts Go After The Salvation Army Bin
ReplyDeleteRich Americans see old used up clothes as garbage while the rest of the world sees it as treasures that can be reused again like in weddings, or in other clothing products. Prices go higher when castoffs come from wealthier neighborhood and lower when they generate less cast offs. clothing is sorted into three basic categories which are clothing,wiping rags, and fiber. With this process they make easy profits that attracts competitors. This chapter overall answers what happens to the clothes after we worn them are they could be thrown away,given to charities, or reusable and the profits they make off their clothing.
Chapter fifteen is about the importation of goods such as used clothing. It also involves efforts by SMART. The importing of used clothing has been banned in over thirty countries. In conclusion, this chapter shows how this ban was effective and that it stopped the importing of used clothing.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 15 Pietra explains how Mitumba is one of the most flourishing textile industries in Africa. She also explains one of the main reasons why Africa struggles to keep up with other countries that have textile industries. The main reason Africa is so behind is the lack of technology. They don't have as much ways to get this new technology as other counties.
ReplyDeleteChapter 13, "Where T-Shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin" discusses the high wages that have caused the demise of the U.S. textile and apparel manufacturing flip side. These wages are the ones that have stripped America's manufacturing which have led to their comparative advantage. The heart of this business is the trade with Africa, where the exploding supply of castoffs from the rich meet the incessant demand for clothing from the poor. This chapter discusses where the t-shirts that are manufactured go after being used and the different ways in which they dispose of them.
ReplyDeletechapter 14 is about though tarzania is one of the poorest countries, in the world , the poverty is not one of frenetic wretchedness as one finds in calcutta or nairobi, the socialist dream is in shambles crumbling like the colonial building left by the british.the higher end manitoba stalls boast this year's fashions, tastefully displayed but the perfect dockers in 2003 were priced at $5.00
ReplyDeleteChapter 15 is mainly about importing certain things such as used clothing. More than 30 countries effectively ban the import of used clothing outright prohibition. It also talks about how Africa has improved their operating system. Also it is about SMART's efforts.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter fourteen discusses that countries economically have been flourishing others such as “Tanzania” who are infested with poverty. The presence of currency controls which means that hard currency was rarely available to import clothing. Also describes how small Entrepreneurs effictively sold clothes, in particular second hand-clothes. Explains how adults were found in clothes in rags and children always been without clothing basically “naked.” Britain surprisely was a prosperous country in rural Tanzania.
ReplyDeleteChapter 15 mentions efforts by SMARTS. It also talks about how more than 30 countries effectively ban the import of used clothing. This ban was effective. The chapter mainly talks about the importation of goods.
ReplyDeletechapter 13 the saluation army at one time tried to sell all of the clothing in its stores or to give it away but the supply now so for outrips domentric demand that only a fraction.the first three vehicles alone cost well over $100,000 which would by about one-tenth of a house in much of the surrounding neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteChapter 15, "Mitumba: Friend or Foe To Africa", is about banning the import of used clothing outright prohibitions in more than 30 countries. The barriers to this Mitumba trade have been erected by the local textile industry. Chinese T-shirts threatened Americans in 2008 and the British were threatened by the Indian cottons in 1720. SMARTS efforts to general trend toward liberization in most countries and Africa has a way better operating system than it used to.
ReplyDeleteChapter Fourteen discusses how some countries were economically successful; moreover, other countries like Tanzania were in a manifestation with poverty. Since Tanzania was categorized as a rural place with poverty, it was oppressed by other countries, for example, Britain. As a result, Britain was seen as a flourishing country, whereas, Tanzania, was seen as a place of poverty due to the founding of adults in rags of clothes and children half naked. While small entrepreneurs sold clothing, some would tend to sell second-hand clothes at an affordable price.
ReplyDeleteChapter 15 explains how some countries are being rather successful, while places like Mitumba is undergoing poverty and also their means of clothing transportation. It also explains why countries such as Africa are struggling to keep up with their textile industries. One of the many reasons is due to the lack of technology, reason being that they don’t have the means to get their hands on certain luxuries that others are able to obtain. It also involves efforts by SMART, which is the importing of used clothing has been banned in over thirty countries. Overall, this chapter shows how this ban was effective and that it stopped the importation of used clothing.
ReplyDeleteChapter 13 focuses on discarded and/or donated clothes.
ReplyDeleteU.S. sent used clothes to countries like Poland, Ukraine, and Russia. Used clothing gets obtained from charities and is then sold by the U.S.
The more people donate and/or throw away their clothes, the richer the U.S becomes.
Between 1995 and 2007 the U.S. exported nearly 9 billion lbs of used clothing to the rest of the world.