Hidden hands in the market : ethnographies of fair trade, ethical consumption and corporate social responsibility /

In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of ess...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Neve, Geert de
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald JAI, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Research in economic anthropology ; v. 28.
Temas:
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
International trade > Moral and ethical aspects.
Competition, Unfair > Moral and ethical aspects.
Anti-globalization movement.
Social responsibility of business.
Commerce international > Aspect moral.
Altermondialisme.
Entreprises > Responsabilité sociale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Gestion d'entreprises.
Anti-globalization movement
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
International trade > Moral and ethical aspects
Social responsibility of business
Business ethics & social responsibility.
Corporate governance: role & responsibilities of boards & directors.
Economics.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : revealing the hidden hands of global market exchange / Geert De Neve, Peter Luetchford, Jeffrey Pratt
  • Longing for the west : the geo-symbolics of the ethical consumption discourse in Hungary / Tamás Dombos
  • The hands that pick fair trade coffee : beyond the charms of the family farm / Peter Luetchford
  • Making or marketing a difference? : an anthropological examination of the marketing of fair trade cocoa from Ghana / Amanda Berlan
  • Produce(ing) equity : creating fresh markets in a food desert / Lisa Markowitz
  • Global garment chains, local labour activism : new challenges to trade union and NGO activism in the Tiruppur garment cluster, South India / Geert De Neve
  • NGO campaigns and banks : constituting risk and uncertainty / Rebecca Lawrence
  • Arbitrating risk through moral values : the case of Kenyan fairtrade / Catherine S. Dolan
  • Uplift and empower : the market, morality and corporate responsibility on South Africa's platinum belt / Dinah Rajak
  • Think locally, act globally : the political economy of ethical consumption / James G. Carrier
  • Food values : the local and the authentic / Jeffrey Pratt
  • Outsourcing otherness : crafting and marketing culture in the global handicrafts market / Jennifer S. Esperanza
  • Looping the value chain : designer copies in a brand-name garment factory / Rebecca Prentice.

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