Author of 'The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy', Pietra Rivoli talks of globalization impacts

17 May '05

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Author of Author of 'The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy', Pietra Rivoli was inspired to write the book when she attended a students protest at Georgetown University.

The students were seeking information on the origins of their logo T-shirts, as also demanding that the University be accountable for the working conditions in the factories that made apparel with the Georgetown logo on it, led the economist Prof. Pietra Rivoli to get down on the T-shirt trail.

Search for answers that stirs up human emotions prompted Prof. Rivoli to write the now famous book: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade (John Wiley and Sons, 2005).

She says, “The T-shirt's journey back to the US from China is really a story about the world trading rules, which are of course evolving all of the time. And the end of the T-shirt's story—when it finds its way to Africa—highlights perhaps the most vexing issue in the globalization discussion, which is the gap between rich and poor.”

www.fibre2fashion.com brings an exclusive interview with Prof Rivoli on its portal providing deeper insights and vision she holds on the impacts of globalization from an economist's point of view, and beyond.

She finally concludes:

“If I were an activist trying to advance the welfare of the poor, my focus would be on including the poor in politics and enhancing their political voice, rather than on shielding them from the effects of economic markets.”
politics and enhancing their political voice, rather than on shielding them from the effects of economic markets.”

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