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Free trade and uneven development : the North American apparel industry after NAFTA / edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair.

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How NAFTA has reshaped the production of clothing in North America.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Gereffi, Gary, Spener, David, 1961-, Bair, Jennifer, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
North American Free Trade Agreement > (1992 December 17)
Clothing trade > North America.
Clothing trade > Government policy > North America.
Textile industry > North America.
Textile industry > Government policy > North America.
Free trade > North America.
North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
Clothing trade.
Clothing trade > Government policy.
Free trade.
Textile industry.
Textile industry > Government policy.
North America.
Table of 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.

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