Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes
- ISBN-10
- 1118356098
- ISBN-13
- 9781118356098
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-09
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Kelsey Timmerman
Description
A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of ourclothes When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to knowwhere his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journeythat would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia toChina and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimatelydescribes the connection between impoverished garment workers'standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. Byintroducing readers to the human element of globalization—thefactory workers, their names, their families, and their way oflife—Where Am I Wearing bridges the gap between globalproducers and consumers. New content includes: a visit to a fair trade Ethiopian shoefactory that is changing lives one job at time; updates on howworkers worldwide have been squeezed by rising food costs anddeclining orders in the wake of the global financial crisis; andthe author's search for the garment worker in Honduras who inspiredthe first edition of the book Kelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country andmaintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing hasappeared in the Christian Science Monitor and CondéNast Portfolio, and has aired on NPR. Enlightening and thought-provoking at once, Where Am IWearing? puts a human face on globalization.
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