Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice?

by Kathryn Wheeler

Book Overview

As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement. Drawing on examples from the UK, Sweden and USA, this book moves away from models of individualized consumer choice and instead explores the collective cultures and practices that motivate and sustain fair-trade consumer behaviour. Although the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349337056
• ISBN13: 9781349337057
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"