Tourism Planning or Making Sweatshops

Tourism Planning: Basics, Concepts, Cases

Author: Clare A Gunn

As one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy since the 1950's, tourism has proved to be a complicated phenomenon, unlike any other economic producer. Over the last few decades, tourism has exerted increasing pressure on the land and negative social, environmental and economic impacts have surfaced as major issues. Positive guidelines for better planning are in demand by developers and designers who need new understandings of the breadth of tourism's complexity for their own success. Long considered the seminal work on tourism development, Tourism Planning provides a comprehensive, integrated overview of all aspects of tourism and the planning functions that accompany it, emphasizing concepts and principles for better planning. The revised and updated fourth edition contains enhanced discussions of the role of communities immediately surrounding the sites using newer tourism cases as examples. Issues that have increased in importance in recent years are also discussed in depth including transportation glut, resource erosion, sprawl and sustainable development.

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Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry

Author: Ellen Israel Rosen

The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice--especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around the world.
Rosen looks closely at the role trade policy has played in globalization in this industry. She traces the history of current policies toward the textile and apparel trade to cold war politics and the reconstruction of the Pacific Rim economies after World War II. Her narrative takes us through the rise of protectionism and the subsequent dismantling of trade protection during the Reagan era to the passage of NAFTA and the continued push for trade accords through the WTO. Going beyond purely economic factors, this valuable study elaborates the full historical and political context in which the globalization of textiles and apparel has taken place. Rosen takes a critical look at the promises of prosperity, both in the U.S. and in developing countries, made by advocates for the global expansion of these industries. She offers evidence to suggest that this process may inevitably create new and more extreme forms of poverty.

Stephen Cullenberg

A detailed examination of the role that trade policy plays in the process of globalization. Rosen provides a meticulous historical analysis of the textile/apparel industry, one of the world's most globalized industries and one of its most hot-button issues.

Richard P. Appelbaum

Making Sweatshops reveals the inexorable movement towards an open trading system, the shifting alignments of actors pushing for or opposing openness, and, most centrally, how trade policy promotes the globalization of apparel production, filling a gap in our understanding of these dynamics.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures and tables
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Free Trade, Neoclassical Economics, and Women Workers in the Global Apparel Industry	13
3	Roots of the Postwar Textile and Apparel Trade: The Reconstruction of the Asian-Pacific Rim Textile Industry	27
4	The Emergence of Trade Protection for the Textile and Apparel Industries	55
5	The U. S. Textile Industry: Responses to Free Trade	77
6	The U. S. Apparel Industry: Responses to Capital Flight	96
7	The 1980s: The Demise of Protection	119
8	The Reagan Revolution: The Caribbean Basin Initiative	129
9	Trade Liberalization for Textiles and Apparel: The Impact of NAFTA	153
10	Apparel Retailing in the United States: From Mom-and-Pop Shop to Transnational Corporation	177
11	Finally Free Trade: The Future of the Global Apparel Industry	202
12	The New Global Apparel Trade: Who Wins, Who Loses?	220
	Notes	253
	Index	311