The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters, 2nd Edition

CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. International Praise for Travels of a T-Shirt, Second Edition
3. Title Page
4. Copyright
5. Dedication
6. Preface
7. Prologue
8. Part I: King Cotton
   1. Chapter 1: How America Has Dominated the Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years
   2. Chapter 2: The History of American Cotton
      1. Demand Pull: The Humble Class Gets a Taste for ‘‘Gaiety of Dress''
      2. Keep the Fiddler Well-Supplied with Catgut
      3. Eli Meets a Venture Capitalist
      4. Where Was the Competition?
      5. All God's Dangers Ain't a White Man
      6. Cotton Factories Arrive in Texas
   3. Chapter 3: Back at the Reinsch Farm
      1. C.F. and Hattie Move West (and Bring a Tractor)
      2. White Guys Get All Draggy-Like
      3. Bureaucrats Push Out Sharecroppers
      4. Machines that Don't Get All Discouraged
      5. Pick Your Weather
      6. The Reinsch Children Leave the Farm
      7. Old Enemies, New Friends
      8. Designer Genes
      9. Back to Nature or Forward to the Future?
   4. Chapter 4: All God’s Dangers Ain’t the Subsidies
      1. Backward to Seed and Forward to Denim: Farmer Profits at Every Step
      2. No More Handfuls
      3. All This and Subsidies, Too
      4. Pretty Pigs
      5. No Lipstick for Africa
      6. Where Is the Competition?
      7. Vicious Circles
      8. Too Poor to Pollute
      9. Bt Cotton Comes to China
      10. The Worms Win
9. Part II: Made in China
   1. Chapter 5: Cotton Comes to China
      1. The Chinese Wall
      2. Shanghai Number 36 Cotton Yarn Factory
      3. The Shanghai Brightness Number 3 Garment Factory
   2. Chapter 6: The Long Race to the Bottom
      1. Inventive Brits versus Thrifty Chinamen
      2. Help Wanted: Docile and Desperate Preferred
   3. Chapter 7: Sisters in Time
      1. Docility on a Leash
      2. Sure Beats the Farm
      3. Amazon.com ...