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Fair Trade and Social Justice : Global Ethnographies.

By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly 3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a "fair price" for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially j...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lyon, Sarah
Otros Autores: Moberg, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; 1 What's Fair?: The Paradox of Seeking Justice through Markets; PART I: GLOBAL MARKETS AND LOCAL REALITIES: REGULATING AND EXPANDING FAIR TRADE; 2 Fair Trade and the Specialty Coffee Market: Growing Alliances, Shifting Rivalries; 3 A New World?: Neoliberalism and Fair Trade Farming in the Eastern Caribbean; 4 Fair Flowers: Environmental and Social Labeling in the Global Cut Flower Trade; 5 Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures: Changing Modes of Production and Regulation on Darjeeling Tea Plantations.
  • PART II: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY IN FAIR TRADE MARKETS6 A Market of Our Own: Women's Livelihoods and Fair Trade Markets; 7 Fractured Ties: The Business of Development in Kenyan Fair Trade Tea; 8 Fair Trade Craft Production and Indigenous Economies: Reflections on "Acceptable" Indigeneities; PART III : RELATIONSHIPS AND CONSUMPTION IN FAIR TRADE MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES; 9 Fair Money, Fair Trade: Tracing Alternative Consumption in a Local Currency Economy; 10 Relationship Coffees: Structure and Agency in the Fair Trade System.
  • 11 Novica, Navajo Knock-Offs, and the 'Net: A Critique of Fair Trade Marketing Practices12 Naming Rights: Ethnographies of Fair Trade; About the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.