Introduction: The apparel industry and North American economic integration

Free Trade & Uneven Development: North American Apparel Industry After Nafta

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-22

  Spener, David ^a   Gereffi, Gary ^b   Bair, Jennifer ^c  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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