PERS2002: Business and Technology

Dr. Satish Nargundkar

Travels of a T-Shirt by Pietra Rivoli

Assignment 6: Chapters 11 and 12

Chapter 11

1. What do the data show about the biggest cause of the loss of American jobs in the textile industry? (pp. 171-173)

2. What are some of the complaints against Wal-Mart’s business practices? (p. 183)

3. What was Jim DeMint’s campaign message in South Carolina? (p. 190)

Chapter 12

4. Discuss briefly the fight in Britain in the 1600s over imported cotton underwear from India. According to the author, the protectionist policies inadvertently helped launch the modern world. How? (pp. 207-211).