Hidden hands in the market ethnographies of fair trade, ethical consumption, and corporate social responsibility

In much of the world's economy, production, exchange and consumption are regulated by the Market, which is widely believed to be based on economic rationality and driven by a desire to consume. But there are different views of how the Market operates, or ought to operate. This collection of ess...

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Other Authors Neve, Geert de
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2008.
SeriesResearch in economic anthropology ; v. 28.
Subjects
Economic anthropology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : revealing the hidden hands of global market exchange / Geert De Neve, Peter Luetchford, Jeffrey Pratt
  • Longing for the west : the geo-symbolics of the ethical consumption discourse in Hungary / Tamás Dombos
  • The hands that pick fair trade coffee : beyond the charms of the family farm / Peter Luetchford
  • Making or marketing a difference? : an anthropological examination of the marketing of fair trade cocoa from Ghana / Amanda Berlan
  • Produce(ing) equity : creating fresh markets in a food desert / Lisa Markowitz
  • Global garment chains, local labour activism : new challenges to trade union and NGO activism in the Tiruppur garment cluster, South India / Geert De Neve
  • NGO campaigns and banks : constituting risk and uncertainty / Rebecca Lawrence
  • Arbitrating risk through moral values : the case of Kenyan fairtrade / Catherine S. Dolan
  • Uplift and empower : the market, morality and corporate responsibility on South Africa's platinum belt / Dinah Rajak
  • Think locally, act globally : the political economy of ethical consumption / James G. Carrier
  • Food values : the local and the authentic / Jeffrey Pratt
  • Outsourcing otherness : crafting and marketing culture in the global handicrafts market / Jennifer S. Esperanza
  • Looping the value chain : designer copies in a brand-name garment factory / Rebecca Prentice.

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