HIST 289R Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Textile Recycling, National Database And Registration Authority, Wage Labour
11 Apr 2018
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Salaula - where people in africa can go to buy second hand clothing. Clothing to them has a cultural or political meaning and is not a simple commodity. Pro - provides funds for charities, creates jobs, keeps materials out of landfills. Cons - destroys local industry, imposes western cultural, environmental cost to shipping globally. Africa textile cant compete with imported us secondhand. 12 african countries have banned importing clothes. Looking at one item can let us see global commodity networks. As asian and latin american economies expanded in the 70s they become important manufacturing centers. Trade liberalization policies in 90s such as nadra dropped many trade restrictions and increased global trade. 1960 - americans spent 10% of budget on clothes but had less than 25 garments a year and 95% of garments were made in the us. Now - americans spend 3. 5% of budget on clothing accounting to 70 pieces a year but only 2% is made in the us.
