NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO’S PLANET MONEY

This example of participatory journalism traces the making of a T-shirt from harvesting cotton in the United States, to spinning that cotton into yarn in Indonesia, to sewing the men’s and women’s T-shirts in Bangladesh and Colombia, and shipping the final products back to NPR’s listeners in the U.S. Based on Petra Rivoli’s book, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, this project focuses on the production of a ubiquitous, ordinary product in order to examine complex issues surrounding conditions of international trade and workers’ rights.