02098nam a22001817a 4500 141110b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781566399685 HD9940.N72.F74 Free trade and uneven development: the North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA. / edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener and Jennifer Bair. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. ix, 356p.: ill; 25cm. Includes index 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. Gereffi Gary Spener David Bair Jennifer lcc BK 5256 12756 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 SPECIAL COLL 2014-11-10 0 HD9940.N72.F74 7417/446/13 2014-11-10 00:00:00 1 2014-11-10 BK