Textiles and clothing (T&C) trade after lapse of quotas in 2005 has revealed China's overwhelming comparative advantage in the manufacture and export of T&C products. China's advantage in this sector attracted the use of trade remedies by WTO members under WTO laws, often in a manner contrary to...

The issue of country-of-origin product images has received considerable attention, but research usually focuses on consumers. The perceptions of retail buyers are equally important, because they make stocking decisions which determine which products customers will see. This study looks at...

This article takes an in-depth look at the student anti-sweatshop movement and proposes the next chapter of organizing, providing greater protections for garment workers by securing their access to the United States' judicial system.On December 16, 2011 the United States Department of Justice...

This is a descriptive paper on the export performance of clothing industries in Central America and the Caribbean Basin to the U.S. market. A brief summary of the history of the region's garment export industry in the face of evolving trade liberalization is provided. Attention is given to the...

The fashion industry shows the highest revenues of all creative industries exceeding those of books, movies, and music combined. However, in the United States, fashion designers are not granted the moral rights necessary to protect their works from being replicated by pirates. The objective of...

This article provides a specific case of how changes across the international division of labour have impacted upon — and been contested by — the workers involved in commodity production. Cantin employs a long-term perspective, detailing the establishment of garment production in the US as a...

This dissertation uses the large negative shock to the British cotton textile industry, caused by the U.S. Civil War, in order to test three long-running questions about innovation. Chapter one provides the first empirical test of the leading theory of directed technical change, introduced by...