Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: Analytical book review comparing the (Rivoli, Pietra. 2005. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the

Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: Analytical book review comparing the (Rivoli, Pietra. 2005. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade) with Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. When one looks at the annals of history, it is a clearly proven that for a nation to reach the top echelons, mainly in the aspect of providing its people the needed comforts and also to gain superiority over other nations, its economy has to be strong. The economy of any country can be strengthened only if there is optimum trade of all the commodities including basic commodities like T-shirts. As the book, “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy” written by Pietra Rivoli

Pietra Rivoli wrote the book “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy” stimulated by a student anti-sweatshop protests that took place in Georgetown. That is, when an activist through the microphone asked the crowd gathered, "Who made your T-shirt?", it initiated the thought process regarding Free trade and globalization in Rivoli’s mind. A thought that is ‘seeded’ into an author’s mind is outputted in his or hers work. That ‘seeding’ of thought could be initiated or influenced by the ‘system’ in which the author lives or lived. Most times an author writes what he/she sees, feels and lives. So, my perspective of Rivoli’s main purpose in writing this book is to discover and discuss a thought that got seeded in her mind. ‘Seeded’ by that question, she bought a six dollar T-shirt at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and traces the T-shirts’ path before reaching the store in Florida. So, by chronicling the round-the-world journey of a T-shirt, starting from Texas cotton-growers to a Tanzanian used-clothing bazaar, she wanted to explore and discuss how the work economy works in the era of free-trade and globalization. Rivoli to discuss this aspect starts the journey at cotton fields of Texas, where the cotton is grown, then she travels to a factory in Shanghai where the cotton is spun into yarn, knitted up in the form of a cloth and finally sewn into a T-shirt.