What Do Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum Mean When They

question 5

Multiple Choice

What do Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum mean when they write about a global "race to the bottom" in the retail-dominated production of clothing?

• A) Clothing retailers and manufacturers race to get out new products before anyone else and thus foment innovation and increasing quality in the sector.
• B) Retailers and manufacturers will go anywhere on earth to pay the lowest possible wages, which results in dismal wages for workers-who are often children.
• C) As the manufacture of clothing for large retailers was increasingly centered on areas of the Southern Hemisphere, competition for workers gradually brought wages up in these parts of the world.
• D) A manufacturing race has been on for more than twenty years, and it pits large northern retailers against southern manufacturers.

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