The Clothes We Wear

Jessica Savrock

jsavrock@lhup.edu

Journalism/Mass Communications

 

 

 

 

Clothing from Animals

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Clothing from Plants

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Ethical Issues

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CITATIONS

     Websites:

  1. Cotton Incorporated - www.cottoninc.com
  2. Australian Wool Innovation - www.wool.com.au/
  3. The Story of Cotton ~ www.cottonsjourney.com
  4. The Cotton Plant ~ www.cottonaustralia.com.au
  5. The Classification of Cotton ~ www.cottoninc.com
  6. Fabric Information ~ www.fabrics.net
  7. The Eli Whitney Museum ~ www.eliwhitney.org
  8. Ramie: The different Bast Fibre Crop ~ www.newcrops.uq.edu.au
  9. Clothing Information Sheet ~ www.vegsoc.org/infor/clothing.html
  10. General Trapping Facts ~ www.wildlifedamagecontrol.com
  11. Animal Aid Campaigns: Cat and Dog Fur ~ www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/sport/catsdogs.htm
  12. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ~ www.peta.org
  13. www.infurmation.com
  14. Trapping Fact Sheet ~ www.furkills.org
  15. Animals as Clothing/Commodity ~ www.rmad.org
  16. Fur, Fur and More Fur ~ http://fur.elehost.com
  17. World Animal Net ~ http://worldanimal.net
  18. Fur Farming's Role in Agriculture ~ www.furcommission.com
  19. Fur Farming ~ www.iftf.com
  20. History of Leather ~ www.westernexpeditions.com

  21. Leather Tanning Information ~ http://oror.essortment.com

  22. Making of Leather:  Tanning and Finishing ~ www.leatherchamois.com

  23. The Silkworm ~ www.rdricketts.com

  24. The History of Sericulture ~ www.insects.org

  25. Animals as Clothing - www.rmad.org/acloth.html
  26. Vegetarian Society Clothing Information Sheet - www.vegsoc.org/info/clothing.html
  27. How Silk is Made - www.silkpaintinggallery.com/silk.htm
  28. Reader's Companion to American History - Cotton - http://college.hmco.com
  29. Ostrich Feathers - http://allsands.com
  30. Hats off to Birds! - http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nsbirds/feat05.htm
  31. Occupational Health - http://focus.hms.harvard.edu/2003/March21_2003 /occupational_health.html
  32. MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia - www.nlm.nih.gov
  33. The Merck Manual - www.merck.com
  34. Sweatshops in America - www.sweatshops-retail.org
  35. Famous Black History Americans - www.africanaonline.com
  36. Sweating System - www.encyclopedia.com
  37. Feminists against Sweatshops - www.feminist.org
  38. Labor Abuses At CINTAS Producing Factory in Haiti - www.behindthelabel.org
  39. Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery - http://memory.loc.gov
  40. Sweatshops - www.heartsandminds.org
  41. Sweatshops and Child Labor - www.veganpeace.com
  42. Illegal Immigration - http://faculty.ncwc.edu
  43. Illegal Immigrants - http://collaboratory.lib.binghampton.edu
  44. A History of American Sweatshops - http://historymatters.gmu.edu
  45. Sweatshop Watch - www.sweatshop.org

 

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      Books:

  1. Adcock, K.J.  Leather: From the Raw Material to the Finished Product.  London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
  2. Cooper, Elizabeth K.  Silkworms and Science, The Story of Silk.  New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
  3. Fitzpatrick, Frederick L. Our Animal Resources: Animals and their Economic Importance.  New York:  Holt 1963.
  4. L'Hommedieu, Arthur John.  From Plant to Blue Jeans : A Photo Essay.  New York: Children's Press, 1997.
  5. Traven, B.  The Cottonpickers.  New York, Hill and Wang, 1969.

                        

 

 

 

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