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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 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
Acknowledgments 1 What's Fair? The Paradox of Seeking Justice through MarketsMark Moberg and Sarah LyonPart I : Global Markets and Local Realities 2 Fair Trade and the Specialty Coffee MarketJulia Smith 3 A New World? Neoliberalism and Fair Trade Farming in the Eastern CaribbeanMark Moberg 4 Fair FlowersCatherine Ziegler 5 Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade FuturesSarah BeskyPart II : Negotiating Difference and Identity in Fair Trade Markets 6 A Market of Our OwnMarketsSarah Lyon 7 Fractured TiesCatherine S. Dolan 8 Fair Trade Craft Production and Indigenous EconomiesPatrick C. WilsonPart III : Relationships and Consumption in Fair Trade Markets and Alternative Economies 9 Fair Money, Fair TradeFaidra Papavasiliou 10 Relationship CoffeesMolly Doane 11 Novica, Navajo Knock-Offs, and the 'Net: A Critique of Fair Trade Marketing PracticesKathy M'Closkey 12 Naming RightsJane Henrici About the ContributorsIndex
