For the second part of the book, the author continues the path of a t-shirt, now back to the U.S. Rivioli explains that the retailers like Walmart are the powerful, not the factory owners. They can buy more supplies and request for lower prices, once they can always relocate to other factories if the price is not good for them, and the factories tend to accept since they can't lose big companies like that. She talks about the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement, a system that used to regulate the textile market. I feel that this type of initiatives can turn the global market more fair, and when it ended, China became the most concentrated production, making it harder for other nations. She emphasizes that this is another example of how politics influence the flow of goods, and not just the "free" market forces.
Then, she brings the argument of the re-utilization of clothes, and how the West it is not only a villain, but donates tons of clothes to other countries, especially in Africa, and encourage small markets, instead of just burning the used clothes. It's a opportunity to have what to wear, to create trade, and to make a good thing, even if these countries lack money for clothes because of the West's policies, sometimes.
To end, she talks about the IMF and World Bank, and how they encourages liberalization and contribute to the decline of Africa's textile markets. She offers a dual vision, showing that is not simple to say who is good or bad, but reaffirming that in globalization, some will loose and some will win.
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