Travels Of The T-Shirt In The Global Economy Summary

In the book The travels of the T-Shirt in the Global Economy, the author, Pietra Rivoli, discussed the activists and how they change the textile manufacturing. The activists are the people who want to improve the condition of the working class. Generation of activists have changed the rules of the race and raised the bottom, and making it a much better place to work than it used to be. Therefore, there are numerous changes in the textile manufacturing that business owners have created and/or enforced under pressure from activists since the Industrial Revolution, for example, child labor, health and safety inspections, and code of conduct.

To begin with, child labor allowed textile manufacturers in many countries to reach to the top, however,

By the late 1980s, business practice for apparel companies should be responsible for the conditions in their suppliers’ factories. However, it was a novel and undesirable idea to most companies. Several years later, Levi Strauss become the first apparel company to create and enforce the code of conduct because of the under pressure from the activists, consumers, and religious group. In the book, the author stated that numerous companies began to adopt the code of conduct and expect their supplier commit a variety of fair labor practice as a condition of their business relationships, and organization emerged to help companies monitor conditions in their suppliers’ factories. In 1995, Verité, a nonprofit organization, assists various countries in their efforts to oversee working conditions in supplier factories. The struggles over child labor and minimum wage had become the ideas that large corporations should be responsible for workplace practices advanced from radical notion to mainstream business practice. In 2008, the United States and other European country had included labor protections in all of their future trade agreements. In the book, the author stated that in the summer of 2008, United States and most of the European apparel firms announced that Uzbeki cotton will no longer be used in their apparel because of the concerns over child labor in the cotton farms. In conclusion, many textile and apparel manufacturing had established the code of conduct all thank the activists, consumers, and other religious