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The Fair Trade Handbook

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The Fair Trade Handbook offers an extensive exploration of fair trade framed by goals of trade justice and global solidarity. It presents diverse viewpoints, highlighting a transformative vision developed by Canadian researchers that emphasises cooperation and a stronger role for Southern farmers and workers. The book critically examines fair trade within the context of global capitalism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy, using development studies and political economy perspectives. It also includes the engaging graphic story 'a lively bean that brightens lives'! by Bill Barrett and Curt Shoultz.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in education, social justice, development studies, and those seeking an accessible yet critical understanding of fair trade and global economic structures.

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How fair is fair trade? This handbook brings together leading fair traders, activists, advocates, and commentators in Canada and internationally, reflecting on the shortfalls of conventional business, production, and global trade and how we can change our policies, practices, and behaviours.

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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 question the limits of fair trade 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 the graphic story A Lively Bean That Brightens Lives, by Bill Barrett and Curt Shoultz.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781773634883

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 October 2021

Country: Canada

Imprint: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Sean McHugh

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 425g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Gavin Fridell (Author)
Gavin Fridell is the Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary's University.


Zack Gross (Author)
Zack Gross has been a Prairie-based international development activist for more than fifty years. He is a member of the Board of Fairtrade Canada and Advisory Board of the Canadian Fair Trade Network.


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