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

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Neve, Geert de
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2008.
• Σειρά: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 28.
• Θέματα: Economic anthropology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.