{"product_id":"where-am-i-wearing-isbn-9781118277553","title":"Where am I Wearing?","description":"\u003cb\u003eA journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothes\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhen 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. \u003ci\u003eWhere Am I Wearing?\u003c\/i\u003e 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—\u003ci\u003eWhere Am I Wearing\u003c\/i\u003e bridges the gap between global producers and consumers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKelsey Timmerman speaks and universities around the country and maintains a blog at www.whereamiwearing.com. His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCondé Nast Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e, and has aired on NPR.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnlightening and thought-provoking at once, \u003ci\u003eWhere Am I Wearing?\u003c\/i\u003e puts a human face on globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: We Have It Made xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Mission 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 A Consumer Goes Global 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Tattoo’s Tropical Paradise 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Fake Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Anti-Sweatshop Protestors 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II My Underwear: Made in Bangladesh 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Jingle These 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Undercover in the Underwear Biz 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Bangladesh Amusement Park 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Inside My First Sweatshop 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Child Labor in Action 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Arifa, the Garment Worker 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 Hope 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 No Black and White, Only Green 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpdate for Revised Edition: Hungry for Choices 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III My Pants: Made in Cambodia 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Labor Day 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Year Zero 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Those Who Wear Levi’s 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Those Who Make Levi’s 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Blue Jean Machine 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 Progress 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Treasure and Trash 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpdate for Revised Edition: The Faces of Crisis 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV My Flip-Flops: Made in China 139\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 PO’ed VP 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20 Life at the Bottom 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21 Growing Pains 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 22 The Real China 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 23 On a Budget 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 24 An All-American Chinese Walmart 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 25 The Chinese Fantasy 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpdate for Revised Edition: Migration 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Made in America 197\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 26 For Richer, for Poorer 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUpdate for Revised Edition: Restarting, Again 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 27 Return to Fantasy Island 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 28 Amilcar’s Journey 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 29 An American Dream 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 30 Touron Goes Glocal 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A Discussion Questions 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B Note to Freshman Me 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C Where Are You Teaching?: A Guide to Taking Where Am I Wearing? to a Glocal Context 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKELSEY TIMMERMAN\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e and has aired on NPR.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Entertaining And Thought-Provoking Look Behind The Curtain Of The Global Economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know more about 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. 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