From the Book - Second edition, new preface and epilogue, with updates on economic issues and main characters.
How America has dominated the global cotton industry for 200 years
The history of American cotton
All God's dangers ain't the subsidies
The long race to the bottom
Perverse effects and unintended consequences of T-shirt trade policy
45 years of "temporary" protectionism end in 2009
Where T-shirts go after the Salvation Army bin
How small entrepreneurs clothe East Africa with old American T-shirts
Mitumba : friend or foe to Africa? Conclusion. Epilogue: Developments 2009-2014. American cotton is still king
The rase to the bottom speeds up
The alphabet armies march on
Competition heats up in the used clothing business.
Preface: How Student Protests Sent A Business Professor Around the World. Prologue: I Find My T-Shirt's Birthplace. Part 1: King Cotton: How America Has Dominated The Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years. Chapter 1: Reinsch Cotton Farm, Smyer Texas. Chapter 2: The History of American Cotton: Winning By Ducking the Labor Market. Chapter 3: Back at the Farm: All God's Dangers Ain't the Subsidies. Part II: Made in China. Chapter 4: Cotton Comes to China. Chapter 5: Sisters in Time: From the Farm to the Sweatshop. Part III: Trouble at the Border: My T-Shirt Returns to America. Chapter 6: Dogs Snarling Together: How Politics Came to Rule the Global Apparel Trade. Chapter 7: Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy: Chapter 8: 40 Years of "Temporary" Protectionism Ends in 2005
And China Takes All the Jobs. Part IV: My T-Shirt Finally Encounters a Free Market: The Global Trade in Cast-off Clothing. Chapter 9: Where T-Shirts Go After the Salvation Army Bin: Japan, Poland, Tanzania, and the Rag Factory. Chapter 10: How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts. Conclusion. Acknowledgements. Bibliography.
