Global Production : The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim

, by Bonacich, Edna; Cheng, Lucie; Chinchilla, Norma

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ISBN: 9781566391696 | 1566391695
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Copyright: 6/29/1994

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Acknowledgments
The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy	p. 3
Mapping a Global Industry: Apparel Production in the Pacific Rim Triangle	p. 21
Power and Profits in the Apparel Commodity Chain	p. 42
U.S. Retailers and Asian Garment Production	p. 63
The Role of U.S. Apparel Manufacturers in the Globalization of the Industry in the Pacific Rim	p. 80
The Development Process of the Hong Kong Garment Industry: A Mature Industry in a Newly Industrialized Economy	p. 105
The Globalization of Taiwan's Garment Industry	p. 126
The Korean Garment Industry: From Authoritarian Patriarchism to Industrial Paternalism	p. 147
The Philippine Garment Industry	p. 162
Thailand in the Pacific Rim Garment Industry	p. 180
The Garment Industry in Singapore: Clothes for the Emperor	p. 197
The Apparel Maquiladora Industry at the Mexican Border	p. 217
Industrial Organization and Mexico-U.S. Free Trade: Evidence from the Mexican Garment Industry	p. 230
Export Manufacturing, State Policy, and Women Workers in the Dominican Republic	p. 247
The Maquila Revolution in Guatemala	p. 268
The Garment Industry and Economic Restructuring in Mexico and Central America	p. 287
Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry	p. 309
Recent Manufacturing Changes in the U.S. Apparel Industry: The Case of North Carolina	p. 328
Immigrant Enterprise and Labor in the Los Angeles Garment Industry	p. 345
The Garment Industry, National Development, and Labor Organizing	p. 365
List of Contributors	p. 375
Index	p. 377
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