Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Garment Industry in the Restructuring Global Economy
I Patterns and Linkages
2 Mapping a Global Industry: Apparel Production in the Pacific Rim Triangle
3 Power and Profits in the Apparel Commodity Chain
4 U.S. Retailers and Asian Garment Production
5 The Role of U.S. Apparel Manufacturers in the Globalization of the Industry in the Pacific Rim
II Asia
6 The Development Process of the Hong Kong Garment Industry: A Mature Industry in a Newly Industrialized Economy
7 The Globalization of Taiwan's Garment Industry
8 The Korean Garment Industry: From Authoritarian Patriarchism to Industrial Paternalism
9 The Philippine Garment Industry
10 Thailand in the Pacific Rim Garment Industry
11 The Garment Industry in Singapore: Clothes for the Emperor
III Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
12 The Apparel Maquiladora Industry at the Mexican Border
13 Industrial Organization and Mexico-U.S. Free Trade :Evidence from the Mexican Garment Industry
14 Export Manufacturing, State Policy, and Women Workers in the Dominican Republic
15 The Maquila Revolution in Guatemala
16 The Garment Industry and Economic Restructuring in Mexico and Central America
IV The United States
17 Labor Squeeze and Ethnic/Racial Recomposition in the U.S. Apparel Industry
18 Recent Manufacturing Changes in tine U.S. Apparel Industry: The Case of North Carolina
19 Immigrant Enterprise and Labor in 1he Los Angeles Garment Industry
Conclusion
20 The Garment Industry, National Development, and Labor Organizing
List of Contributors
Index