Free trade and uneven development: the North American apparel industry after NAFTA

Introduction: The apparel industry and North American economic integration / David Spener, Gary Gereffi, and Jennifer Bair

NAFTA and the apparel commodity chain: corporate strategies, interfirm networks, and industrial upgrading / Jennifer Bair and Gary Gereffi

Subcontracting networks in the New York City garment industry: changing characteristics in a global era / Florence Palpacuer

The impact of North American economic integration on the Los Angeles apparel industry / Judi A. Kessler

The new sweatshops in the United States: how new, how real, how many, and why? / Robert J.S. Ross

Labor's response to global production / Edna Bonacich

The unraveling seam: NAFTA and the decline of the apparel industry in El Paso, Texas / David Spener

Tex Mex: linkages in a binational garment district? The garment industries in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez / Robine van Dooren

Commodity chains and industrial organization in the apparel industry in Monterrey and Ciudad Juárez / Jorge Carrilo, Alfredo Hualde, and Araceli Almarez

Torreón: the new blue jeans capital of the world / Gary Gereffi, Martha Martinez, and Jennifer Bair

Learning and the limits of foreign partners as teachers / Enrique Dussel Peters, Clemente Ruiz Durán, and Michael J. Piore

Knitting the networks between Mexican producers and the U.S. market / Ulrik Vangstrup

Fragmented markets, elaborate chains: the retail distribution of imported clothing in Mexico / Jorge Mendoza, Fernando Pozos Ponce, and David Spener

When does apparel become a peril? On the nature of industrialization in the Caribbean basin / Michael Mortimore

Can the Dominican Republic's export-processing zones survive NAFTA? / Dale T. Matthews

NAFTA and uneven development in the North American apparel industry / Jennifer Bair, David Spener, and Gary Gereffi