Demands for a fairer system of trade to address the growing immiseration and poverty of large numbers of people, particularly in the developing world, found a new channel for expression trhough the Fair Trade movement, picking up momentum from about the mid-70s. The Politics of Fair Trade: A Survey offers a concise and up-to-date critical overview of fair trade in an accessible style.

Table of Contents

• List of tables
• The editor and contributors
• Abbreviations
• ESSAYS
• Introduction Meera Warrier
• Free trade, fair trade and globalization Jens-Uwe Wunderlich
• The commodification of ethics Sam Knowles
• Branding morality: The case of Fairtrade Catherine, S. Dolan
• Falling foul of fair: The politics of supply chains Peter Luetchford
• Certification as governance: Current impacts and future prospects Graeme Auld
• Fair trade and development: A changing paradigm Daniel Jaffee
• CASE STUDIES
• Handicrafts Patrick, C. Wilson
• Coffee Peter Luetchford
• Cocoa Amanda Berlan
• A-Z glossary
• Advertising
• Advocacy
• African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries
• Agreement on Agriculture
• Agribusiness
• AgroFair
• Ahold
• Aid
• Aid for Trade
• Alter Eco
• Alternative trade movement
• Alternative Trading Organizations (ATOs)
• Altro Mercato
• Anti-dumping duties
• Anti-globalization movement
• Apparel industry
• Asia Fair Trade Centre of Excellence
• Asia Fair Trade Forum
• Bananas
• The Body Shop
• Branding
• Bretton Woods system/institutions
• Cafédirect
• CAFOD
• Capital flows
• Capitalism
• Caritas International
• Centre-periphery
• Certification in Fairtrade
• Child labour
• Chiquita
• Chocolate
• Christian Aid
• Citizens’ movements for corporate accountability
• Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC)
• Cocoa
• Code of practice
• Coffee
• Commodification
• Commodities
• Commodity chains
• Common Agricultural Policy
• Comparative advantage
• Consumerism
• Coocafé
• Co-operatives
• Core-periphery
• Corporate accountability
• Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Cotton
• Coyotes
• Credit
• CTM Altro Mercato
• Day Chocolate Company
• Debt crisis
• Debt trap
• Del Monte
• Dependency theory
• Developing countries
• Development
• Divine Chocolate Ltd
• Dole
• Drop the debt
• Environmental degradation
• Equal Exchange
• Ethical sourcing
• Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
• EurepGAP
• European Fair Trade Association (EFTA)
• Exploitation
• Factor endowment
• Fair Trade Advocacy Office (FTAO)
• Fair Trade Federation (FTF)
• Fairtrade Foundation
• FLO—Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International
• Fairtrade minimum price
• Fairtrade premium
• Fairtrade standards
• Fairwashing
• Fair Wear Foundation (FWF)
• Flo-CERT
• Foreign direct investment (FDI)
• France Alter Eco
• Free trade
• FTO Mark
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• Global Compact
• Global Justice Movement
• Harmonization
• Human rights
• Import substitution
• Inequality
• International Coffee Agreement (ICA)
• International commodity agreements (ICAs)
• International Fairtrade Certification Mark
• International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• International Standards Organization (ISO)
• International trade
• ISEAL Alliance
• Kuapa Kokoo
• Kuyichi
• Labelling
• Labour behind the Label
• Labour standards
• Liberalization
• Mainstreaming fair trade
• Make Poverty History
• Max Havelaar
• MFN (most favoured nation) status
• Middlemen
• Multifibre Arrangement (MFA)
• Multinational companies/corporations (MNCs)
• National Initiatives (NIs)
• Neoliberalism
• Nestlé
• Network of European World Shops (NEWS)
• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• Non-tariff barriers
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• Oxfam International
• Oxfam Fair Trade (OFT)
• Oxfam Trade Campaign
• Plantations
• Poverty
• Primary commodities
• Protectionism
• Rainforest Alliance (RA)
• Rice
• Shade coffee
• Social Accountability International (SAI)
• Solidaridad
• Starbucks
• Structural adjustment
• Supply chains
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable Fair Trade Management System (SFTMS)
• Tariffs
• Ten Thousand Villages
• Third World
• Trade mark
• Trade system
• Trade-not-Aid
• Trade Justice Movement
• Traidcraft
• Transfair Germany
• Transfair USA
• Transnational corporations
• TRIPS (Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights)
• Twin and Twin Trading
• UCIRI
• UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Uruguay Round
• Utz Kapeh
• World Bank
• World Development Movement
• World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO)
• Worldshops
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• STATISTICS