Fair Trade and How It Works
Title | Fair Trade and How It Works PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline DeCarlo |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1448818656 |
This book is an introduction to contemporary issues about fair trade and how trade influences our lives, discussing exploitative middle men, values-based choices, fair trade principles and practices, the complex problems of poverty, and changes in international trade.
The Fair Trade Scandal
Title | The Fair Trade Scandal PDF eBook |
Author | Ndongo Sylla |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2014-02-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0821444891 |
This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom. Ndongo Sylla has worked for Fairtrade International and offers an insider’s view of how fair trade improves—or doesn’t—the lot of the world’s poorest. His methodological framework first describes the hypotheses on which the fair trade movement is grounded before going on to examine critically the claims made by its proponents. By distinguishing local impact from global impact, Sylla exposes the inequity built into the system and the resulting misallocation of the fair trade premium paid by consumers. The Fair Trade Scandal is an empirically based critique of both fair trade and traditional free trade; it is the more important for exploring the problems of both from the perspective of the peoples of the Global South, the ostensible beneficiaries of the fair trade system.
Handbook of Research on Fair Trade
Title | Handbook of Research on Fair Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Laura T. Raynolds |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 611 |
Release | 2015-02-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1783474629 |
Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically i
Fair Trade and Social Justice
Title | Fair Trade and Social Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lyon |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0814796214 |
Heroic Desire performs its title--bold, challenging, seductive, and compelling--a vital and exciting addition to the discourse on lesbian identities, their dissolves and perpetual becomings. Sure to incite and inspire." —Lynda Hart, Author of Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression "Right on the edge of exciting and daring new writing on lesbian representation. Moving beyond post- modernism's rejection of identity politics, Munt draws on a wealth of scholarship and personal reflection to refigure the heroic narrative in the service of lesbian liberation strategies. A thoughtful and thought- provoking book." —Esther Newton , State University of New York, Purchase "In Heroic Desire Sally Munt revisits identity politics through the figure of the lesbian hero. The result is one of the most exciting works of lesbian theory to appear in years. Written in a strong and engaging personal voice, Heroic Desire will excite, provoke, enlighten, and entertain the reader with this original insights into questions of lesbian identity, culture, and community." —Bonnie Zimmerman, San Diego State University
The Fair Trade Handbook
Title | The Fair Trade Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin Fridell |
Publisher | Fernwood Publishing |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1773635085 |
Framed within the common goal of advancing trade justice and South-North solidarity, The Fair Trade Handbook presents a broad interpretation of fair trade and a wide-ranging dialogue between different viewpoints. Canadian researchers in particular have advanced a transformative vision of fair trade, rooted in the cooperative movement and arguing for a more central role for Southern farmers and workers. Contributors to this book look at the issues within global trade, and assess fair trade and how to make it more effective against the broader structures of the capitalist, colonialist, racist and patriarchal global economy. The debates and discussions are set within a critical development studies and critical political economy framework. However, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, as it translates the key issues for a popular audience. Includes : A Lively Bean that Brightens Lives: A Graphic Story by Bill Barrett and Curt Shoultz
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation
Title | Good Corporation, Bad Corporation PDF eBook |
Author | Guillermo C. Jimenez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Social responsibility of business |
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"This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study"--Provided by publisher.
Buying into Fair Trade
Title | Buying into Fair Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Keith R. Brown |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0814725368 |
Stamped on products from coffee to handicrafts, the term “fair trade” has quickly become one of today’s most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fair labor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair-trade products give buyers peace of mind in knowing that, in theory, how they shop can help make the world a better place. Buying into Fair Trade turns the spotlight onto this growing trend, exploring how fair-trade shoppers think about their own altruism within an increasingly global economy. Using over 100 interviews with fair-trade consumers, national leaders of the movement, coffee farmers, and artisans, author Keith Brown describes both the strategies that consumers use to confront the moral contradictions involved in trying to shop ethically and the ways shopkeepers and suppliers reconcile their need to do good with the ever-present need to turn a profit. Brown also provides a how-to chapter that outlines strategies readers can use to appear altruistic, highlighting the ways that socially responsible markets have been detached from issues of morality. A fascinating account of how consumers first learn about, understand, and sometimes ignore the ethical implications of shopping, Buying into Fair Trade sheds new light on the potential for the fair trade market to reshape the world into a more socially-just place. Keith Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.