Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes
Kelsey Timmerman
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1118277554
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
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At the tag. Now consider the components of your jeans: thread, cotton, zipper, rivets, dye. Research companies and countries that could have possibly made each of the components of your jeans. How many countries might have had a hand in making your jeans? Discuss your findings as a group. Made in Bangladesh 8. When did many of the department stores in Kelsey’s hometown start to go out of business? What was the reason? 9. Why did Kelsey have to lie in order to see the factories? 10.
Might be able to sell. None of them had attended a day of school. A nine-year-old girl, the youngest of our group, wasn’t wearing shoes or a shirt, but she was wearing earrings. Her hair was parted to the side and held with a clip. Her ten-year-old cousin had burn scars running from her fingers to her elbow. She had put her arm in a stove when she was very young and did not know better. Life is work in Bangladesh for adults and for children. These kids were professionals. Two of the boys sold.
Been more than 15. Dalton asked him to slow down so I could see what he was doing, but his hands still moved too fast. FIGURE 8.1 Boys working in a textile factory. Electric looms pounded out a rhythm that could be heard anywhere in town. Shirtless men tended machines once again, but these were unlike the first wheel crank we saw. Flywheels spun belts. The looms pumped up and down. One of the men motioned me closer, but I chose to keep my distance from all the moving parts. A safe uniform is.
Have come to help, bringing with them democracy, capitalism, and a sort of self-righteous colonialism. As opposed to the economy being based on communist farms, it’s now based on the production of jeans and other garments. If you are Cambodian and you aren’t making garments for a Levi’s country, you are probably working for an NGO from a Levi’s country or servicing tourists from Levi’s countries as a guide, driver, or translator. According to the CIA’s online World Factbook, the apparel industry.
Goals, such as protecting workers, the environment, and human rights—even if this may mean slowing the growth of trade and the economy. And when asked, “If you had to choose between buying a piece of clothing that costs $20 and you are not sure how it was made, and one that is certified as not made in a sweatshop, but costs $25, which one would you buy?” Sixty-one percent of those polled said they would pay $5 more for the piece of clothing certified as not made in a sweatshop. To test the.