Layla Zaglul Ruiz

Fair Trade Enclaves (eBook, PDF)

Labour and Livelihoods in Costa Rica's Banana Industry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fair Trade Enclaves tells the story of exploitation in the production of Fair Trade bananas. The book is valuable reading for scholars of Anthropology, Development and Latin American Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040337950
• Artikelnr.: 73489145

Autorenporträt

Layla Zaglul Ruiz is a Canning House Research Fellow in the Latin America and Caribbean Center at the London School of Economics, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Disjunctions in the Fair Trade Movement
Fair Trade enclaves within neoliberalism The discourse of crisis
Self-exploitation and co-ownership Research methods and positionality Book
structure 2. Producing bananas Producing bananas in Costa Rica Producing
Alianza (and Caché) bananas Conclusions 3. Fair trade contradictions
Contracts Working hours and payment Freedom of association Conclusions 4.
Materializing power on the shop floor Caché: controlling through conflict
and violence Alianza: Relatedness and kinship on the shopfloor Conclusions
5. Discourse of crisis in public and private spheres The shop floor in
crisis Conclusion 6. The cost of quality The evolution of banana quality
standards Surviving the market with extra-class bananas More restrictions,
the same 'perfect fruit' Is first-class consumption ethical? Conclusion 7.
The lack of social capital Agrofair's modus operandi Conclusion 8.
Conclusion. Index