Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Preface
• Prologue
• Part I: King Cotton
  • 1 How America Has Dominated the Global Cotton Industry for 200 Years
  • 2 The History of American Cotton
    • Keep the Fiddler Well-Supplied with Catgut
    • Eli Meets a Venture Capitalist
    • Where Was the Competition?
    • All God’s Dangers Ain’t a White Man
    • Cotton Factories Arrive in Texas
  • 3 Back at the Reinsch Farm
    • C.F. and Hattie Move West (and Bring a Tractor)
    • White Guys Get All Draggy-Like
    • Bureaucrats Push Out Sharecroppers
    • Machines that Don’t Get All Discouraged
    • Pick Your Weather
    • The Reinsch Children Leave the Farm
    • Old Enemies, New Friends
    • Designer Genes
    • Back to Nature or Forward to the Future?
  • 4 All God’s Dangers Ain’t the Subsidies
    • Backward to Seed and Forward to Denim: Farmer Profits at Every Step
    • No More Handfuls
    • All This and Subsidies, Too
    • Pretty Pigs
    • No Lipstick for Africa
    • Where Is the Competition?
    • Vicious Circles
    • Too Poor to Pollute
    • Bt Cotton Comes to China
    • The Worms Win
• Part II: Made in China
  • 5 Cotton Comes to China
    • The Chinese Wall
    • Shanghai Number 36 Cotton Yarn Factory
    • The Shanghai Brightness Number 3 Garment Factory
  • 6 The Long Race to the Bottom
    • Inventive Brits versus Thrifty Chinamen
    • Help Wanted: Docile and Desperate Preferred
  • 7 Sisters in Time
    • Docility on a Leash
    • Sure Beats the Farm
    • Amazon.com and Dell Arrive at the Mill
  • 8 The Unwitting Conspiracy
    • Writing the Rules of the Race
    • Activists Raise the Bottom, 1780---2008
    • Back at Georgetown, Bored Is Good
    • Bad for Boy Rats
    • Trade: Friend or Foe of the Planet?
    • The China Challenge
    • The Race Moves On
• Part III: Trouble at The Border
  • 9 Returning to America
    • Chinese T-Shirts Versus American Jobs
    • A Taste of the (Crazy) Rules in 2008
  • 10 Dogs Snarling Together
    • Auggie Goes to Washington
    • Making Deals and Making Exceptions
    • 1985 to 1990: The Seed-to-Shirt Coalition
    • Snarling Back
    • Gone On Long Enough
    • The Slow Unraveling
  • 11 Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences of T-Shirt Trade Policy
    • No More Doffers
    • Own Worst Enemy
    • Friends with Benefits
    • Wal-Mart Backs Musharraf
    • Race to the Quotas
    • Auggie and Aristotle Versus Wal-Mart
    • Creative Destruction
    • Whither the Dinosaurs?
    • (Unintended) Winners
  • 12 45 Years of ‘‘Temporary’’ Protectionism End in 2009-----Now What?
    • The Big Bang
    • The Big Wink and Nod
    • A Sigh of Relief
    • What’s Next?
    • Friends and Enemies, 2008
    • Obama’s Wink
    • Try This New Underwear
• Part IV: My T-Shirt Finally Encounters A Free Market
  • 13 Where T-Shirts Go after the Salvation Army Bin
    • Meet Me in the Parking Lot
    • Panning for Gold in New Jersey
    • T-Shirts in the Afterlife
  • 14 How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts
    • Mitumba Nation
    • Two for a Penny
    • Panning for Gold in Tanzania
    • Finding Geofrey
    • Too Big for Used Britches
  • 15 Mitumba: Friend or Foe to Africa?
    • Shadowy Middlemen and Economic Democracy
    • Don’t Look Now, but China Is Behind You
• Conclusion
• Epilogue: Developments 2009---2014
  • I: American Cotton Is Still King
    • Cotton Subsidies Redux
    • What About Africa?
    • West Texas Wind
    • What’s Next?
  • II: The Race to the Bottom Speeds Up
    • Fast Fashion and Factory Fires
    • Activists, Workers, and Governments Respond
    • The Cops Are Just Not There
  • III: The Alphabet Armies March On
    • From Quotas to Trade Agreements
    • Unintended Consequences All Over Again
  • IV: Competition Heats Up in the Used Clothing Business
    • Used Clothing Entrepreneurs Discover Politics
    • Mitumba in East Africa
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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