Question

"The travel of t-shirts in a global economy" Rivoli Pietra

Why did Dr. Rivoli mention the “Tenured professor” problem

Answer 1

Ans: "The travel of t-shirts in the global economy" is an amazing book, given to our world by the Pietra Rivoli.ln this book she covered about the globalization,breif history of farming and textiles and also about their role in the development of countries and in that she also describe the topic about enslavement and about the bonded workers.

--- she also done a very good investigation about the used clothig industry.

--- For this book " the travel of T-shirts in the global economy", she has won numerous awards and this book is translated in fourteen languages.

--- ln her narrative, she also lights up on some globalization debates and also discloses some new key factors to sucess in the global busness.

---The book also reveals the political and economic forces at work in the global economy, ln tracing a T- shir'ts life story from a texas cotton field to chine factory and back to a U.S storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in africa.

Using a simple T- shirt story, through which we explore business,economic and political problems of globalization in a historical context.This story also lights up many issues which businesspeople and citizens are going through every day.

---- Another key point made in her book is about "Tenured professor"  problem, is where people with potential make laws and they rule to keep themselves in power.

An example of this was shown in the New York Times article,it was about Chavez looks beyond 2013 and he faces many problems from Simon Romero.ln a recent period Chavez strike a force forward that would enable the presidency to be a life term.
In the past Chavez had tried to overcome this force but he had lacked votes,however Chavez succeeded in the past week.

Rivoli would point Chavez as a tenured professor, it would be uderstand from his story that he tried to keep his power and wealth by creating laws to protect himself.

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