Journey of a T-Shirt
Cotton:
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Makes global economy possible
Shipping more efficient
Back onto a truck
Then train
Thousands of miles: cost pennies per shirt
- made primarily in the US
- Harvested through machinery
- Machines to haul and bundle and clean
- million t-shirts made in one year from single farm
- genetically modified to avoid pestilence- 90% of American cotton
- Cotton yield tripled since 1950’s
- Yarn made by machines
- Different thread thickness and texture by fabric
- Yarn recipes secret due to importance
- Circular knitting machine turns thread into fabric
- Dyed, cut, and sewn into garments
- Machines from Japan, Germany
- Bangladesh
- Poor
- No running water for worker
- All belongings in bookcase
- $80 a month
- 4mil working in garment business
- Factory collapse
- Poverty vs unsafe conditions
- Poor
- Columbia
- Worker supports herself and her mother on salary wages
- 4x Bangladesh workers wages
- 4x Bangladesh workers wages
- Worker supports herself and her mother on salary wages
- Industry vs social upheaval
Items moved through shipping containers
Makes global economy possible
Shipping more efficient
Back onto a truck
Then train
Thousands of miles: cost pennies per shirt