Where Am I Wearing? : A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes

by Timmerman, Kelsey

• ISBN13: 9781118277553
• ISBN10: 1118277554
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 authors 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.

Author Biography

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	p. xi
Prologue: We Have It Made	p. xv
The Mission	p. 1
A Consumer Goes Global	p. 3
Tattoo's Tropical Paradise	p. 13
Fake Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Anti-Sweatshop Protestors	p. 17
My Underwear: Made in Bangladesh	p. 21
Jingle These	p. 23
Undercover in the Underwear Biz	p. 31
Bangladesh Amusement Park	p. 37
Inside My First Sweatshop	p. 43
Child Labor in Action	p. 49
Arifa, the Garment Worker	p. 55
Hope	p. 63
No Black and White, Only Green	p. 69
Update for Revised Edition: Hungry for Choices	p. 75
My Pants: Made in Cambodia	p. 79
Labor Day	p. 81
Year Zero	p. 87
Those Who Wear Levi's	p. 93
Those Who Make Levi's	p. 99
Blue Jean Machine	p. 111
Progress	p. 121
Treasure and Trash	p. 129
Update for Revised Edition: The Faces of Crisis	p. 135
My Flip-Flops: Made in China	p. 139
PO'ed VP	p. 141
Life at the Bottom	p. 149
Growing Pains	p. 159
The Real China	p. 169
On a Budget	p. 177
An Ail-American Chinese Walmart	p. 181
The Chinese Fantasy	p. 187
Update for Revised Edition: Migration	p. 193
Made in America	p. 197
For Richer, for Poorer	p. 199
Update for Revised Edition: Restarting, Again	p. 211
Return to Fantasy Island	p. 215
Amilcar's Journey	p. 229
An American Dream	p. 237
Touron Goes Glocal	p. 249
Discussion Questions	p. 269
Note to Freshman Me	p. 275
Where Are You Teaching!: A Guide to Taking Where Am I Wearing? to a Glocal Context	p. 279
Acknowledgments	p. 285
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