| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 356 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : The apparel industry and North American economic integration / David Spener, Gary Gereffi, Jennifer Bair -- NAFTA and the apparel commodity chain : corporate strategies, interfirm networks, and industrial upgrading / Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi -- Subcontracting networks in the New York City garment industry : changing characteristics in a global era / Florence Palpacuer -- The impact of North American economic integration on the Los Angeles apparel industry / Judi A. Kessler -- The new sweatshops in the United States : how new, how real, how many, and why? / Robert J.S. Ross -- Labor's response to global production / Edna Bonacich -- The unraveling seam : NAFTA and the decline of the apparel industry in El Paso, Texas / David Spener -- Tex Mex : linkages in a binational garment district? : the garment industries in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez / Robine van Dooren -- Commodity chains and industrial organization in the apparel industry in Monterrey and Ciudad Juárez / Jorge Carrilo, Alfredo Hualde, Araceli Almarez -- Torreón : the new blue jeans capital of the world / Gary Gereffi, Martha Martinez, Jennifer Bair -- Learning and the limits of foreign partners as teachers / Enrique Dussel Peters, Clemente Ruiz Durán, Michael J. Piore -- Knitting the networks between Mexican producers and the U.S. market / Ulrik Vangstrup -- Fragmented markets, elaborate chains : the retail distribution of imported clothing in Mexico / Jorge Mendoza, Fernando Pozos Ponce, David Spener -- When does apparel become a peril? : on the nature of industrialization in the Caribbean Basin / Michael Mortimore -- Can the Dominican Republic's export-processing zones survive NAFTA? / Dale T. Matthews -- NAFTA and uneven development in the North American apparel industry / Jennifer Bair, David Spener, Gary Gereffi |
| Summary |
How NAFTA has reshaped the production of clothing in North America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
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North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) fast |
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Accord de libre-échange nord-américain. rasuqam |
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Clothing trade -- North America
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Clothing trade -- Government policy -- North America
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Textile industry -- North America
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Textile industry -- Government policy -- North America
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Free trade -- North America
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Clothing trade
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Clothing trade -- Government policy
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Free trade
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Textile industry
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Textile industry -- Government policy
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Indústria têxtil -- Estados unidos.
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Livre comércio -- Estados unidos.
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Intégration économique.
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Mondialisation.
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Industrie du vêtement.
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Libre-échange.
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North America
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Amérique du Nord.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gereffi, Gary.
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Spener, David, 1961-
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Bair, Jennifer, 1973-
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| ISBN |
9781439901144 |
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1439901147 |
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