No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Third edition
An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producers at the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.
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Praise
We need to put justice, dignity and people’s freedom into the trade equation–and this is what Sally Blundell’s excellent guide helps us to do.
– Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and environmental activist
For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.
– Howard Zinn, social activist and author of a A People’s History of America
The No-Nonsense Guides target those topics that a large army of voters cares about, but that politicos evade.
– The Independent, London, U.K.
A splendid new series of pocketable guides to issue politics…rigorously clear.
– The Guardian, London, U.K.
Contents
| Foreword | by Vandana Shiva |
| Introduction | |
| Chapter 1 | A Short History of Trade |
| Chapter 2 | The Revolution That Went to Market |
| Chapter 3 | The Problem with Free Trade |
| Chapter 4 | Is Fair Trade Working? |
| Chapter 5 | The World We Live In |
| Chapter 6 | Just Read the Label |
| Chapter 7 | Where to From Here? |
| Index |
