Globalization
Please answer the following questions below in 6-10 sentences with page number and line of where information was retrieved. (ex: pg 65 line 2 or paragraph 1)
Please let me know if you can’t retrieve access to the book.
The information will be in Chapter 1-5, link below:
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p7gwDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=related:Gn1UFFVAUrNImM:scholar.google.com/&ots=fzs8FFMR5L&sig=pZcZx_v6EFx6MrFiwv6_pwl29Uc#v=onepage&q&f=false
1. What was the initial lure for textile mills to move south? Was there any government incentive to attract mill owners to the South? How did unions effect textile mills?
2.On top of page 84, Rosen states, They were considerably better off than women textile workers in the low-wage South during Americas postwar prosperity. Indeed, it was in part the very welfare these workers enjoyed that made U.S. textile and apparel manufacturers begin to seek the comparative advantage of offshore production. Define comparative advantage. In your own words, describe the authors view, given in these two sentences, of offshore production
3.How did the U.S. government play a part ending production at U.S. textile mills especially in the North?
4.What were the textile initiatives offered to the textile industry by President Kennedy? How come no funds were appropriated to the textile industry until 1970?
5. What the two-price cotton policy? How did this effect U.S. textile producers?