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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Lyon; Mark Moberg; Eldon and Anne Foote Trust Philanthropy Collection. |
| ISBN: | 9780814796207 0814796206 9780814796214 0814796214 9780814796221 0814796222 |
| OCLC Number: | 1057984701 |
| Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. : EBL. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Description: | viii, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | What's fair? : the paradox of seeking justice through markets / Mark Moberg and Sarah Lyon -- Fair trade and the specialty coffee market : growing alliances, shifting rivalries / Julia Smith -- A new world? : neoliberalism and fair trade farming in the Eastern Caribbean / Mark Moberg -- Fair flowers : environmental and social labeling in the global cut flower trade / Catherine Ziegler -- Colonial pasts and fair trade futures : changing modes of production and regulation on darjeeling tea plantations / Sarah Besky -- A market of our own : women's livelihoods and fair trade markets / Sarah Lyon -- Fractured ties : the business of development in Kenyan fair trade tea / Catherine S. Dolan -- Fair trade craft production and indigenous economies : reflections on "acceptable" indigeneities / Patrick C. Wilson -- Fair money, fair trade : tracing alternative consumption in a local currency economy / Faidra Papavasiliou -- Relationship coffees : structure and agency in the fair trade system / Molly Doane -- Novica, Navajo knock-offs, and the 'net : a critique of fair trade marketing practices / Kathy M'Closkey -- Naming rights : ethnographies of fair trade / Jane Henrici. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sarah Lyon and Mark Moberg. |
Abstract:
"This outstanding collection not only serves as an accessible introduction to Fair Trade but illuminates the gap between the sunny rhetoric and the actual practice. With ethnographic richness and nuance, the authors complicate our understanding of the market as a means of achieving economic and social justice."--Lisa Markowitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville.
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 is 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, Fair Trade and Social Justice represents the first book-length endeavor to use ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals. --Book Jacket.
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