PERS2002: Business and Technology
Dr. Satish Nargundkar
Travels of a T-Shirt by Pietra Rivoli
Assignment
2: Chapters
3 and 4:
Chapter 3
1.
What was the Bracero
program?
2.
What finally caused Ned Cobb to give up cotton farming?
3.
What are the technological developments that occurred in Texas to
aid the cotton farming business, from farming machines to genetically modified
seed? List each innovation and the impact that it had, in a table as follows:
|
Innovation |
Impact of
Innovation |
|
1. 2. 3. etc… |
|
Chapter 4
4.
Cotton farmers waste no part of the plant. List some of the uses
for other parts of the plant besides the cotton itself.
5.
Contrast the problems of the cotton farmers in Africa with what
was happening in the US.