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Documents achievements at both the producer and the consumer ends of commodity chains and assesses prospects for future growth

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Fair Trade from the Ground Up

2. Fair Trade Coffee in Guatemala

3. How Do Producers Spend the Social Premium?

4. Selling and Buying Fair Trade

5. Fair Trade Activisim in the United States

6. A Fair Trade University

7. Growing Fair Trade

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

About the Author

April Linton taught sociology at the University of California San Diego and now works for the Fair Labor Association in Washington, DC. She is coeditor of The Global Governance of Food.

Reviews

"A great strength of this book is the breadth of the original surveys of everyone from producers to business owners to activists and institutional players. I don't know of any other work with such a broad assemblage of empirical pieces." Matt Warning, University of Puget Sound