
Where am I Wearing?
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.
- Undertittel
- A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes
- Forfatter
- Kelsey Timmerman
- Opplag
- Revised and Updated
- ISBN
- 9781118277553
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 363 gram
- Serie
- Where am I?
- Utgivelsesdato
- 27.4.2012
- Forlag
- John Wiley Sons Inc
- Antall sider
- 304
