Brewing Justice : Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival.
Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But what does a fair-trade label signify? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and en...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press,
2014.
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| Summary: | Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the world. But what does a fair-trade label signify? This vivid study of coffee farmers in Mexico offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. Based on extensive research in Zapotec indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Brewing Justice follows the members of the cooperative Michiza, whose organic coffee is sold on the international fair-trade market, and compares them to conventional farming families in the. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (434 pages) |
| Awards: | Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award, 2007. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520957886 0520957881 1322058784 9781322058788 0520282248 9780520282247 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |