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Contents: Analytical overview: Introduction: The apparel industry and North American economic integration -- NAFTA and the apparel commodity chain: Corporate strategies, interfirm networks, and industrial upgrading -- The changing face of the apparel industry in the United States: Subcontracting networks in the new york city garment industry: Changing characteristics in a global era -- The impact of North American economic integration on the Los Angeles apparel industry -- The new sweatshops in the United States: How new, how real, how many, and why? -- Labor's response to global production -- The U.S.-Mexico border region: The unraveling seam: NAFTA and the decline of the apparel industry in El Paso Texas -- Tex mex: Linkages in a bi national garment district? the garment industries in El Paso, and Ciudad Juarez -- Commodity chains and industrial organization in the Appeal industry in Monterrey and Ciudad Juarez -- Interior Mexico: Torreon: The new blue jeans capital of the world -- Learning and the limits of foreign partners as teachers -- Knitting the networks between Mexican producers and the U.S. market -- Fragmented markets, elaborate chains: The retail distribution of imported clothing in Mexico -- Central America and the Caribbean: When does apparel becomes a peril? On the nature of industrialization in the Caribbean basin -- Can the Dominican republic's export-processing zones survive NAFTA? -- Conclusion: NAFTA and uneven development in the North American apparel industry.