Is Fairtrade Fair?

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl

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3. What’s Fair about Fair Trade

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4. The Market: An Unequal Exchange?

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5. The Birth of a Movement and Trade Alternative

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6. Fairtrade: Peeling Back the Label

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7. Fairtrade Coffee: A Niche Market

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8. Fairtrade Impacts on Coffee Producers

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9. Ethical Consumption: Revolution from Within?

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10. Conclusion

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11. Back Matter

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Evaluates the capacity of Fairtrade® labeling to enhance the livelihoods of marginalized producers in developing countries. It looks critically at the evolution of fair trade values and markets, including its somewhat controversial engagement with conventional businesses, and problematizes the role of the "ethical consumer."

• business
• consumer
• Developing Countries
• Fair Trade
• trade

• University of Sydney, Australia

  Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl

ELISABETH VALIENTE-RIEDL is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. She teaches two interdisciplinary postgraduate programs: the Master of Human Rights and the Master of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia-Pacific). Her research focuses on the role and limitations of international markets in fostering poverty alleviation and wellbeing in developing countries.

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