Этот феномен хорошо задокументирован. См., например, Kathleen Rees and Jan Hathcote. The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry in the Age of Globalization // Global Economy Journal 4 (1), 2004; Gary Gereffi and Olga Memedovic. The Global Apparel Value Chain: What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries? Vienna: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 2003; Frederick Abernathy. The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and choices for public and private actors // Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research, December 2005.