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Fair trade and social justice : global ethnographies / edited by Sarah M. Lyon and Mark Moberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moberg, Mark, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International trade.
- Competition, Unfair.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2010.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly 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 just and environmentally sound practices. Yet constrained by existing markets and the entities that dominate them, Fair Trade often delivers material improvements for producers that are much more modest than the profound social transformations the movement claims to support.There has been scant real-world assessment of Fair Trade’s effectiveness. Drawing upon fine-grained anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, the chapters in Fair Trade and Social Justice represent the first works to use ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.Contributors: Julia Smith, Mark Moberg, Catherine Ziegler , Sarah Besky, Sarah M. Lyon, Catherine S. Dolan, Patrick C. Wilson, Faidra Papavasiliou, Molly Doane, Kathy M’Closkey, Jane Henrici
- Contents:
- pt. I. Global markets and local realities : regulating and expanding fair trade
- pt. II. Negotiating difference and identity in fair trade markets
- pt. III. Relationships and consumption in fair trade markets and alternative economies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9780814765005
- 0814765009
- 9780814796221
- 0814796222
- OCLC:
- 779828237
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