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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
How NAFTA has reshaped the production of clothing in North America.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt1441j4p
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Title
Free trade and uneven development.
International Standard Book Number
9781566399678
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Canada., Traités, etc., (1992 oct. 7)
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
North American Free Trade Agreement, (1992 December 17)
Accord de libre-échange nord-américain.
North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Clothing trade-- Government policy-- North America.
Clothing trade-- North America.
Free trade-- North America.
Textile industry-- Government policy-- North America.
Textile industry-- North America.
Libre-échange-- Amérique du Nord.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Exports & Imports.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- International-- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- International-- Marketing.
Clothing trade-- Government policy.
Clothing trade.
Free trade.
Indústria têxtil-- Estados unidos.
Industrie du vêtement.
Intégration économique.
Libre-échange.
Livre comércio-- Estados unidos.
Mondialisation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- Trade & Tariffs.