Name/Title
Unraveled : the life and death of a garmentEntry/Object ID
GT525.B43Description
This book follows the life of an American icon -- a pair of jeans -- to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. Bédat takes us to 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, this book 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.Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing trade, clothing trade--environmental aspects, clothing trade--united states, jeans, labor and globalizationBook Details
Author
Maxine BédatPublisher
Portfolio/PenguinDate Published
2021Call No.
GT525.B43ISBN
593085973, 9780593085974Notes
Length: 312