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Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes / Edition 2 - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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A journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothes

When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again. Where Am I Wearing? intimately describes the connection between impoverished garment workers' standards of living and the all-American material lifestyle. By introducing readers to the human element of globalization--the factory workers, their names, their families, and their way of life--Where Am I Wearing bridges the gap between global producers and consumers.

  • New content includes: a visit to a fair trade Ethiopian shoe factory that is changing lives one job at time; updates on how workers worldwide have been squeezed by rising food costs and declining orders in the wake of the global financial crisis; and the author's search for the garment worker in Honduras who inspired the first edition of the book
  • Kelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country and maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Condé Nast Portfolio, and has aired on NPR.

    • Enlightening and thought-provoking at once, Where Am I Wearing? puts a human face on globalization.

    ISBN-13: 9781118277553

    Media Type: Paperback

    Publisher: Wiley

    Publication Date: 04-24-2012

    Pages: 304

    Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

    Series: Where Am I?

    KELSEY TIMMERMAN is a freelance journalist and public speaker. He's spent the night in Castle Dracula in Romania, gone undercover as an underwear buyer in Bangladesh, and taught an island village to play baseball in Honduras. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and has aired on NPR.

    Table of Contents

    Preface xi

    Prologue: We Have It Made xv

    Part I The Mission 1

    Chapter 1 A Consumer Goes Global 3

    Chapter 2 Tattoo’s Tropical Paradise 13

    Chapter 3 Fake Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Anti-Sweatshop Protestors 17

    Part II My Underwear: Made in Bangladesh 21

    Chapter 4 Jingle These 23

    Chapter 5 Undercover in the Underwear Biz 31

    Chapter 6 Bangladesh Amusement Park 37

    Chapter 7 Inside My First Sweatshop 43

    Chapter 8 Child Labor in Action 49

    Chapter 9 Arifa, the Garment Worker 55

    Chapter 10 Hope 63

    Chapter 11 No Black and White, Only Green 69

    Update for Revised Edition: Hungry for Choices 75

    Part III My Pants: Made in Cambodia 79

    Chapter 12 Labor Day 81

    Chapter 13 Year Zero 87

    Chapter 14 Those Who Wear Levi’s 93

    Chapter 15 Those Who Make Levi’s 99

    Chapter 16 Blue Jean Machine 111

    Chapter 17 Progress 121

    Chapter 18 Treasure and Trash 129

    Update for Revised Edition: The Faces of Crisis 135

    Part IV My Flip-Flops: Made in China 139

    Chapter 19 PO’ed VP 141

    Chapter 20 Life at the Bottom 149

    Chapter 21 Growing Pains 159

    Chapter 22 The Real China 169

    Chapter 23 On a Budget 177

    Chapter 24 An All-American Chinese Walmart 181

    Chapter 25 The Chinese Fantasy 187

    Update for Revised Edition: Migration 193

    Part V Made in America 197

    Chapter 26 For Richer, for Poorer 199

    Update for Revised Edition: Restarting, Again 211

    Chapter 27 Return to Fantasy Island 215

    Chapter 28 Amilcar’s Journey 229

    Chapter 29 An American Dream 237

    Chapter 30 Touron Goes Glocal 249

    Appendix A Discussion Questions 269

    Appendix B Note to Freshman Me 275

    Appendix C Where Are You Teaching?: A Guide to Taking Where Am I Wearing? to a Glocal Context 279

    Acknowledgments 285