Rivoli part 2

1. The history about the location of the textile industry illustrates in global economics that:
• The loser in the race of the textile industry becomes the winner elsewhere. Once the textile industry shifts elsewhere, it opens up room for growth in that nations economy. 
• The textile industry goes where costs are cheapest and regulations are practically nonexistent. The textile industry needs as much marginal revenue as possible, so, once costs in one country goes up, the textile industry leaves in search of cheaper labor, land, materials and less environmental restrictions.
2. The positive consequences to industrialization are:
• Industrialization gives young girls other possibilities than farming. In the book, many Chinese women have escaped husbands, the dull life of farming, the inability to have a life of their own. Having jobs where they can earn their own money gives them their own life. 
• It helps the economy. This one is pretty obvious. Industrialization helps the people in the country and the consumers outside of it because they get cheaper goods.
3. The negative consequences to industrialization are:
• It negatively impacts the environment. The textile industry goes to where the environmental regulations are the worst or will try to go around those environmental regulations. In China, textile factories will dump dyes into the river. Once this gets banned, some will still dump the dyes, some will conceal the pipe that is disposing of the dyes and some will put in chemicals to offset the color of the dyes that is actually worse for the environment than the dyes itself.
• While there are labor laws to protect the worker, many companies will try and bypass these regulations as well. Companies will have a model factory open and a shadow company that overworks and underpays their workers in harsh conditions. Some have engineers who will fake pay statements to regulation.
4. I personally found the passages speaking about the dichotomy between how liberating the textile industry is but how restricting it is as well. The women who work in these industries are required to go to church, have restricted leaving times, are sometimes followed when they do leave but they are leaving very restrictive farm lifestyles where they are unable to dress themselves and are not able to dictate their life in anyway. I never personally would have thought of the textile industry as a liberating industry for women.