Unraveled : the life and death of a garment
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[New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2021].
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Published
[New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2021].
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Book
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xxi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index.
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A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth -- and death -- of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet. Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost. In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon -- a pair of jeans -- to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dying and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills -- or, if they've been "donated," shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage. A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans -- and all that we wear -- to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bédat, M. (2021). Unraveled: the life and death of a garment . Portfolio/Penguin.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bédat, Maxine. 2021. Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment. Portfolio/Penguin.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bédat, Maxine. Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment Portfolio/Penguin, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bédat, Maxine. Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment Portfolio/Penguin, 2021.

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