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Disaster capitalism; Haiti; business conflict; global supply chains; textile and apparel; trade preference programs
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Cut From The Same Cloth: The Us Textile And Apparel Industry And Post-Disaster Designs For Haiti., Ransford F. Edwards Jr.
Cut From The Same Cloth: The Us Textile And Apparel Industry And Post-Disaster Designs For Haiti., Ransford F. Edwards Jr.
Class, Race and Corporate Power
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, various neoliberal strategies have been advanced to help in short-term disaster mitigation and reconstruction, as well as more long-term improvements in the country’s overall economic integration and growth. One such strategy has been focused on revitalizing the country’s apparel assembly industries through an aggressive expansion of export processing zones (EPZs). The disaster, it appears, represented an important opportunity to improve economic conditions by reorganizing the country’s role in the global apparel commodity chain. However, this reorganization conflicts with the preferences of US textile and apparel producers who have used trade preference programs …