Fair Trade Coffee by Gavin Fridell - 9780802095909

Fair Trade CoffeeThe Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice\nAuthor(s): Gavin Fridell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802095909, 978-0802095909\nSynopsis\nOver the past two decades, sales of fair trade coffee have grown significantly and the fair trade network has emerged as an important international development project. Activists and commentators have been quick to celebrate this sales growth, which has allowed socially just trade, labour, and environmental standards and practices to be extended to hundreds of thousands of small farmers and poor rural workers throughout the Global South. While recent assessments of the fair trade network have focused on its impact on local poverty alleviation, however, the broader political-economic and historically rooted structures that frame it have been left largely unexamined.\n\n In this study, Gavin Fridell argues that while local level ana.