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1006419
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b760789
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Title & Author
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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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Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Temple Univ. Press,, ©2002.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (ix, 356 pages)
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ISBN
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1439901147
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: 9781439901144
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156639967X
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1566399688
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9781566399678
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9781566399685
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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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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Abstract
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How NAFTA has reshaped the production of clothing in North America.
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Subject
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Canada., Traités, etc., (1992 oct. 7)
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Subject
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Clothing trade-- Government policy-- North America.
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Subject
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Clothing trade-- North America.
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Subject
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Free trade-- North America.
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Textile industry-- Government policy-- North America.
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Textile industry-- North America.
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Subject
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Libre-échange-- Amérique du Nord.
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Subject
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Exports Imports.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- International-- General.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- International-- Marketing.
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Clothing trade-- Government policy.
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Clothing trade.
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Subject
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Free trade.
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Indústria têxtil-- Estados unidos.
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Subject
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Intégration économique.
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Libre-échange.
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Livre comércio-- Estados unidos.
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Subject
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Mondialisation.
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Subject
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- Trade Tariffs.
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Subject
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Subject
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Textile industry-- Government policy.
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Textile industry.
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Industrie du vêtement.
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Subject
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North American Free Trade Agreement, (1992 December 17)
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Accord de libre-échange nord-américain.
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North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
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Subject
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Amérique du Nord.
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Subject
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North America.
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Dewey Classification
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382/.45687/097
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LC Classification
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HD9940.N72F74 2002eb
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Added Entry
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Bair, Jennifer,1973-
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Gereffi, Gary.
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Spener, David,1961-
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