Where am I wearing? (Record no. 52782)
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| fixed length control field | 03843nam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 338.4/7687 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Timmerman, Kelsey, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Where am I wearing? |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Rev. and updated. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Hoboken, N.J. : |
| Name of publisher | Wiley, |
| Year of publication | c2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv, 287 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Clothing trade. |
| Topical Term | Clothing workers. |
| Topical Term | Wages |
| Topical Term | Consumers |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10630523 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| -- | Provided by publisher. |
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