The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy is an excerpt written by Pierta Rivoli commenting on the expansions of globalization. Globalization has become a widely used term because of its long growing existence. Rivoli has crafted the story of how a t-shirt comes into existence through exploiting and identifying the various social groups, economies, firms and governments that have all fallen under the forces of globalization. As stated in the article, “Back at Georgetown in 1999, I watched a young woman seize the microphone, “Who made your t-shirt” she asked the crowd. “Was it a child in Vietnam, chained to sewing machine without food or water? Or a young girl from India earning 18 cents per hour and allowed to visit the bathroom only twice a day…” Her great interest in this fostered her to write about the many factors that put together a globalized community. Her story is narrated through the travels of the origins of a t-shirt. The t-shirt is a symbol for the globalized community and it does not only represent the tag of the production country on the t-shirt, but the entire process that is involved in this industry. Over the past two centuries many industries have shifted from the western civilization to the eastern, mainly because of cheap labor, however the cotton industry has been excelling and growing in the past two centuries. It was the ninth largest export in the United States in 2003. The story starts from a Miami based t-shirt production firm, which has “Made in China” labels on every t-shirt. The t-shirts are printed in the U.S. but the plain t-shirts, which are printed in Miami, are produce in a factory in China. The cotton that chine uses to produce these t-shirts is harvested in farms in Texas. These cotton harvests in Texas are capable of harvesting cotton for unto 1.3 million t-shirts in a year. This is what proves the U.S. cotton industry to be