TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gereffi Gary
AU  - Spener David
AU  - Bair Jennifer
TI  - Free trade and uneven development: the North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA. 
SN  - 9781566399685
AV  - HD9940.N72.F74 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
N1  - 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
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