PERS2002: Business and Technology

Dr. Satish Nargundkar

Travels of a T-Shirt by Pietra Rivoli

Assignment 4: Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7

1. What is the Hukou system? Who are the Liudong Renkou?

2. Why was work in the factory a step up from working on a farm for many women? Briefly discuss how Chi-Ying and Sadie Frowne felt about their work.

3. What happened to towns (e.g. Manchester, England, and Charlotte, NC) where the cotton industry once flourished, and then disappeared?

Chapter 8

4. What legislations were introduced over the last 200 years due to activists’ work that helped to make the workplace better and safer in factories?

5. Why did Nike claim that they were innocent of labor abuses in their factories in the 1990s? What has changed in their stance today?

6. What does the author mean by “Bored is good”?

7. What are some ways Chinese firms try to evade environmental laws?