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★★★★☆ 3.69 • Goodreads

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  • Ethical Consumption
  • Anti-Corporate Critique
  • Sustainability Themes
  • Exploratory Journey

Loved The Omnivore's Dilemma for tracing hidden systems? The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy delivers that same forensic thrill through every stitch you wear.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • One T-shirt traced across 4 continents
  • Sweatshops & subsidies reveal economic warfare
  • Turns your closet into conspiracy evidence
  • Corporate villains meet cotton farm heroes

You traced your meal from Iowa cornfield to dinner plate, confronting the corporate grotesqueries behind every bite. Now trace your T-shirt from Texas cotton to Chinese factory floor, where Pietra Rivoli's forensic investigation exposes globalization's absurdities with the same righteous intellect and narrative swagger. This is The Omnivore's Dilemma for everything you wear—a journey through supply chains that reveals how ethical consumption collides with economic realities you thought you understood.

This is The Omnivore's Dilemma for everything you wear.

Rivoli delivers the eccentric farmers, villainous middlemen, and gritty sweatshop truths you crave, all wrapped in folksy philosophy that transforms cotton into a profound anti-capitalist parable. Your wardrobe has never felt this urgent.

This is The Omnivore's Dilemma for everything you wear.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I am sooo glad I read this book...informative, thought provoking, and very well balanced." Brice Karickhoff, Goodreads
"What a superb book...the most unbiased book I have ever read...immensely informative and tremendously humorous." Alvaro Berrios, Goodreads
"The depiction of the ins and outs of globalization...is astounding to me." Yarema Mishchenko, Goodreads

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