Handbook of Research on Fair Trade

by Laura T. Raynolds (Editor), Elizabeth A. Bennett (Editor)

Overview

'This Handbook is a long-needed, comprehensive examination of fair trade's multifaceted and shifting coordinates by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines. An invaluable resource for researchers and students alike.'
- Daniel Jaffee, Portland State University

'Raynolds and Bennett have done a major service with this excellent Handbook, providing a sweeping overview of the past quarter century of fair trade work and research. The book offers wide-ranging insights from top experts concerned with theory and practice, and careful attention to fair trade's gains and losses. It will be of great interest to practitioners, activists, and scholars, and bound to be a cornerstone for the next phase of fair trade work and research.'
- Gavin Fridell, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically in the global North). This unique and wide-ranging Handbook analyzes key topics in fair trade, illuminating major theoretical and empirical issues, assessing existing research, evaluating central debates and identifying critical unanswered questions.

The first of its kind, this volume brings together 43 of the foremost fair trade scholars from around the world and across the social sciences. The Handbook serves as both a comprehensive overview and in-depth guide to dominant perspectives and concerns. Chapters analyze the rapidly growing fair trade movement and market, exploring diverse initiatives and organizations, production and consumption regions, and food and cultural products.

Written for those new to fair trade as well as those well versed in this domain, the Handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners interested in global regulation, multi-stakeholder initiatives, social and environmental certification, ethical labeling, consumer activism and international development.

Contributors: C.M. Bacon, G. Balineau, L. Becchetti, E.A. Bennett, V. Bezençon, K. Brown, S. Brown, S. Castriota, P. Conzo, E. Davenport, B. Doherty, C. Getz , M.K. Goodman, N. Greenfield, A. Herman, A. Hughes, B. Huybrechts, J. Keahey, R. Le Velly, A. Linton, M.A. Littrell, W. Low, S. Lyon, R. Makita, A.M. Martin, H. Maryanski, M. McConway, G. Moore, T. Mutersbaugh, V. Nelson, L.T. Raynolds, D. Reed, M-C. Renard, R.A. Rice, L. Riisgaard, C. Rosty, A.M. Smith, S. Smith, D. Stevis, S. Suranovic, A. Tallontire, P. Utting, B.R. Wilson

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783474608
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	06/24/2015
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Co-Director, Center for Fair & Alternative Trade and Professor, Sociology Department, Colorado State University and Elizabeth A. Bennett, Assistant Professor, International Affairs Department, Lewis & Clark College and Associate, Center for Fair & Alternative Trade, Colorado State University, US

Table of Contents

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION: FAIRTRADE
1. Introduction to Research on Fair Trade
Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett

2. Fair Trade: Movement and Markets
Laura T. Raynolds and Nicholas Greenfield

PART II THE FAIR TRADE MOVEMENT
3. The Meaning of Fair Trade
Steven Suranovic

4. Corporate Accountability, Fair Trade and Multi-stakeholder Regulation
Peter Utting

5. Fairtrade International Governance
Elizabeth A. Bennett

6. Global Labor Politics and Fair Trade
Dimitris Stevis

7. Fairtrade Certification, Conventions and Labor
Lone Riisgaard

8. Connections in Fair Trade Food Networks
Michael K. Goodman and Agatha Herman

9. Consumer Politics, Political Consumption and Fair Trade
Keith Brown

10. Domestic Fair Trade in the United States
Sandy Brown and Christy Getz

11. Fair Trade Places
Alastair M. Smith

PART III THE BUSINESS OF FAIR TRADE
12. Cooperatives, Corporations and Fair Trade
Darryl Reed

13. Fair Trade and Social Enterprise
Benjamin Huybrechts

14. Local Fair Trade Organizations and Institutional Logics
Manush McConway and Geoff Moore

15. Fair Trade and Mainstreaming
Ronan LeVelly

16. Fair Trade Certification, Performance and Practice
Bradley R.Wilson and Tad Mutersbaugh

17. Retailers, Corporate Ethics and Fair Trade
Alex Hughes

18. Fairtrade International and the European Market
Bob Doherty, Valéry Bezençon and Gaëlle Balineau

19. The US Market and Fair Trade Certified
April Linton and Claudia Rosty

PART IV FAIR TRADE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
20. Fair Trade, Peace and Development in Conflict Zones
Eileen Davenport and William Low

21. Fair Trade and Development in African Agriculture
Anne Tallontire

22. Fair Trade Coffee and Environmental Sustainability in Latin America
Christopher M. Bacon, Robert A. Rice and Hannah Maryanski

23. Fair Trade and Women’s Empowerment
Sally Smith

24. Fair Trade and Indigenous Communities in Latin America
Sarah Lyon

25. Fair Trade and Racial Equity in Africa
Jennifer Keahey

26. Fair Trade and Artisans
Mary A. Littrell

27. Fair Trade for Small Farmer Cooperatives in Latin America
Marie-Christine Renard

28. Fair trade and Plantation Workers in Asia
Rie Makita

29. Fair Trade International’s Multi-dimensional Impacts in Africa
Valerie Nelson and Adrienne Martin

30. Quantative Analysis of the Impacts of Fair Trade
Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota and Pierluiga Conzo

Index

Editorial Reviews

'Fairtrade is at a cross roads. It faces the challenges of managing successful rapid expansion in scale and scope, and tensions within the movement over whether its founding principles are compromised by mainstream commercial engagement. This handbook brings together an excellent set of critical contributions at the cutting edge of research on fair trade. They provide a wide range of perspectives and insights into different conceptual approaches and empirical case studies covering a variety of products, issues and regions. The handbook is vital reading for all academics, students and practitioners with an interest in fair trade and its future advance in a rapidly changing world.' —Stephanie Barrientos, University of Manchester, UK

'This is an important contribution to building the research field of fair trade globally. The contributions significantly move a range of important debates forward and offer a state-of-the-art account of this most significant sector within ethical consumption' —Alex Nicholls, Said Business School and Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, UK

'Handbook of Research on Fair Trade is a critically important and highly recommended addition to governmental, NGO, and academic library International Economics reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.' —The Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher

‘Raynolds and Bennett have done a major service with this excellent Handbook, providing a sweeping overview of the past quarter century of fair trade work and research. The book offers wide-ranging insights from top experts concerned with theory and practice, and careful attention to fair trade’s gains and losses. It will be of great interest to practitioners, activists, and scholars, and bound to be a cornerstone for the next phase of fair trade work and research.’

Gavin Fridell

‘This Handbook is a long-needed, comprehensive examination of fair trade's multifaceted and shifting coordinates by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines. An invaluable resource for researchers and students alike.’

Daniel Jaffee

‘Handbook of Research on Fair Trade is a critically important and highly recommended addition to governmental, NGO, and academic library International Economics reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.’

The Midwest Book Review

'This is an important contribution to building the research field of fair trade globally. The contributions significantly move a range of important debates forward and offer a state-of-the-art account of this most significant sector within ethical consumption'

Alex Nicholls

‘Edited by Laura T.​ Raynolds and Elizabeth Bennett, both well-known and respected researchers​ ​in the fair trade movement, this Handbook is the first to amass critical studies​ of fair trade in one volume and will prove to be an invaluable resource for​ ​those interested in the history, challenges, and future direction of fair trade initiatives worldwide.​ . . . Overall, this volume is a welcome introduction to the history, theory, and​ ​praxis of the fair trade movement. The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade​ has provided an academically rich resource, while maintaining accessibility​ for practitioners and students interested in the future challenges of the fair​ trade movement.’

Amanda D. Clark

‘Fair trade is at a crossroads. It faces the challenges of managing successful rapid expansion in scale and scope, and tensions within the movement over whether its founding principles are compromised by mainstream commercial engagement. This Handbook brings together an excellent set of critical contributions at the cutting edge of research on fair trade. They provide a wide range of perspectives and insights into different conceptual approaches and empirical case studies covering a variety of products, issues and regions. The Handbook is vital reading for all academics, students and practitioners with an interest in fair trade and its future advance in a rapidly changing world.’

Stephanie Barrientos