From dingy offices in Azerbaijan to the hip lofts of Manhattan, from the dimming industrial heartland of Italy to an unexpectedly modern garment factory in China, the story of the global multi-billion dollar textile industry is one of economic complexity, innovation and exploitation. In her new book Fugitive Denim, author Rachel Louise Snyder travels up and down the rag trade's food chain to draw a portrait of the industry by focusing on that icon of the Americana, the denim cloth of blue jeans. The author joins Larry Mantle to talk about the origins and development of one of the most significant consumer industries in the global economy.
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