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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 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, 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Fair Trade and Social Justice
• Subtitle: Global Ethnographies
• Author: Mark Moberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780814796207
• ISBN: 0814796206
• ID: 04932855
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 557 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 2010

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