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Gereffi, Gary, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair (eds.). Free Trade and Uneven Development: The North American Apparel Industry after NAFTA. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
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Table of contents
Abstract
Reviews
Excerpt
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| List of Tables and Figures | vii |
| Acknowledgments | xi |
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| Part I: Analytical Overview |
| 1. Introduction: the apparel industry and north American economic integration | 3 |
| David Spener, Gary Gereffi, and Jennifer
Bair |
| 2. Nafta and the apparel commodity chain: corporate strategies, interfirm
networks, and industrial upgrading | 23 |
| Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi |
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| Part II: The Changing Face of the Apparel Industry in the United States |
| 3.Subcontracting networks in the New York city garment industry: changing
characteristics in a global era | 53 |
| Florence Palpacuer |
| 4.The impact of North American economic integration on the Los Angeles apparel
industry | 74 |
| Judi A. Kessler |
| 5.The new sweatshops in the United States: how new, how real, how many, and
why? | 100 |
| Robert J. S. Ross |
| 6. Labor's response to global production | 123 |
| Edna Bonacich |
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| Part III: The U.S.-Mexico Border Region |
| 7. The unraveling seam: Nafta and the decline of the apparel industry in
el Paso, Texas | 139 |
| David Spener |
| 8.Texmex: linkages in a binational garment district? The garment industries
in el Paso and ciudad juarez | 161 |
| Rubine van Dooren |
| 9. Commodity chains and industrial organization in the apparel industry
in Monterrey and ciudad juarez | l8l |
| Jorge Carrillo, Alfredo Hualde, and
Araceli Almaraz |
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| Part IV: Interior Mexico |
| 10. Torreon: the new blue jeans capital of the world | 203 |
| Gary Gereffi, Martha Martinez, and
Jennifer Bair |
| 11.Learning and the limits of foreign partners as teachers | 224 |
| Enrique Dussel Peters, Clemente Ruiz
Duran, and Michael J. Piore
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| 12.Knitting the networks between Mexican producers and the U.S. market | 246 |
| Ulrik Vangstrup |
| 13. Fragmented markets, elaborate chains: the retail distribution of imported
clothing in Mexico | 266 |
| Jorge Mendoza, Fernando Pozos Ponce,
and David Spener |
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| Part V: Central America and the Caribbean |
| 14. When does apparel become a peril? On the nature of industrialization
in the Caribbean basin | 287 |
| Michael Mortimore |
| 15. Can the Dominican Republic's export-processing zones survive Nafta? | 308 |
| Dale T. Malhews |
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| Part VI: Conclusion |
| 16. Nafta and uneven development in the north American apparel industry | 327 |
| Jennifer Bair, David Spener, and Gary
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| About the Contributors | 341 |
| Index | 343 |
