The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a book written by Pietra Rivoli to help explain the life cycle of a simple manufactured t-shirts all. The book goes through all the measures taken to assemble the t-shirts and the goes through it’s entire journey from seller to buyer to recycling. The book starts at the harvesting of cotton in Texas and ends in Africa with the reselling/recycling of the shirt. Through telling the life cycle of one simple t-shirt, Rivolo shows the reader many different issues in the global economy by putting it into something they can understand easier.
In the book, Rivoli accounts for all the different steps and stops along the t-shirt’s life. The book is narrated in first-person with the assembly, sales, and recycling of t-shirts and with that goes on to explain the issues of globalization. The t-shirt’s life starts out in Lubbock, Texas, where the cotton is harvested and then sent to the second stop, China, where the t-shirt is manufactured. The third stop in the t-shirt’s journey is in Miami, where the t-shirts have to sent back to the …show more content…
The book shows the reader the issues of international business within the economy and helps explains how societies are becoming more and more globalized with each passing year. Though there are many different ideas throughout the book, the three economic concepts I have chosen to discuss in my review of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy are the positive attributes of globalization and its influences on the social and working conditions in the countries where the textile industry is most prevalent, the incentives for companies to produce in developing countries and therefore helping better establish these countries, and lastly the impacts of American trade policies on not only the American economy, but also the global