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OverviewThis book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the worlds most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change.Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South divide and lies at the heart of key efforts to reshape the global economy. This book reveals the challenges the movement faces in its effort to transform globalization, emphasizing the inherent tensions in working both in, and against, the market. It explores Fair Trades recent rapid growth into new production regions, market arenas, and commodity areas through case studies of Europe, North America, Africa, and Latin America undertaken by prominent scholars in each region. The authors draw on, and advance, global commodity and value chain analysis, convention, and social movement approaches through these case studies and a series of synthetic analytical chapters. Pressures for more radical and more moderate approaches intertwine with the movements historical vision, reshaping Fair Trades priorities and efforts in the Global North and South.Fair Trade will be of strong interest to students and scholars of politics, globalization, sociology, geography, economics and business. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura Raynolds , Associate Professor Douglas Murray (Colorado State University, USA) , John WilkinsonPublisher: Routledge Imprint: Routledge ISBN: 9781280872358ISBN 10: 1280872357 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 10 January 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |