PERS2002: Business and Technology

Dr. Satish Nargundkar

Travels of a T-Shirt by Pietra Rivoli

Assignment 1: Preface and Chapter 1

Please type the answers in a Word document and turn in on iCollege by next class.

Preface

1. What prompted Dr. Rivoli to write this book? What does she think of University students?

Chapter 1

2. According to the author, what would business models predict about a country's dominance in the cotton industry? Why?

3. What are possible explanations for the dominance of the US in the cotton industry?

Chapter 2

4. What role did slavery play in the cotton industry?

5. Why were China and India unable to increase production of cotton the way the US did?

6. What was "Sharecropping"? How did southern farmers use it to keep labor available to them?