Where am I wearing? : a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes / Kelsey Timmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timmerman, Kelsey, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing trade.

Clothing workers.

Wages--Clothing workers.

Wages.

Consumers--Attitudes.

Consumers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and updated.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. By introducing readers to the human element of globalization--the factory workers, their names, their families, and their way of life--Where Am I Wearing bridges the gap between global producers and consumers. New content includes: a visit to a fair trade Ethiopian shoe factory that is changing lives one job at time; updates on how workers worldwide have been squeezed by rising food costs and declining orders in the wake of the global financial crisis; and the author's search for the garment worker in Honduras who inspired the first edition of the book Kelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country and maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Conde; Nast Portfolio, and has aired on NPR. Enlightening and thought-provoking at once, Where Am I Wearing? puts a human face on globalization"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781118356098

1118356098

9781118356081

111835608X

OCLC:

310228345