by Pietra Rivoli
Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory to a used clothing market in Africa, to investigate compelling questions about the politics, economics, ethics, and history of modern business and globalization. Using the story of the t-shirt to illustrate the major issues of the globalization debate, this uniquely entertaining business book offers a surprising, enlightening, and balanced look at one of the major topics of our time.
The book is a neat exploration of all the steps involved in manufacturing a tee-shirt from growing the cotton on. (This was a draft that I accidentally published too soon. If you are interested in this book check back - I will fill in more details. To sum up - good book, easy to read, written by an economist so external costs to the environment are not a focus).
Planet Money on NPR did a special series last month where they made their own shirt ...
Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt: The world behind a simple shirt, in five chapters.
University of California Television (UCTV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYQqKxz8Tg
Older stories on this are at
http://www.npr.org/series/4622200/the-world-in-a-t-shirt
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