Fair trade and a global commodity : coffee in Costa Rica /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Luetchford, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2008.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Coffee industry > Costa Rica.
Café > Commerce > Costa Rica.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Coffee industry
Koffiehandel.
Fair trade.
Kaffeemarkt > Costa Rica.
Fairer Handel > Costa Rica.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Approaching fair trade : coffee in Costa Rica
  • Creating cooperatives : the welfare state, coffee, and fair trade in Costa Rica
  • Sowing progress and contesting development in the Tilarán highlands
  • Farming for the global economy : 'playing' and 'juggling' in the market
  • Landowners and labourers : uncertainties, strategies, and tensions in the labour process
  • Working nature, working the market : sustainability and organic agriculture
  • Envisioning autarky : the family and the farm
  • Civil society : local development and the limits of government
  • Creating and contesting value : the Earth, labour and exchange
  • Conclusion: Fair trade and moral economies.

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