The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice: Managing a Global Industry

Abstract

In this volume, Stenn approaches myriad objectives through the use of a variety of disciplines: she supplies a history of the fair trade movement and provides a theoretical understanding of the relationship between fair trade and justice, based on the work of Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen; she introduces a brief economic history of Bolivia, culminating in the introduction of a new constitution in 2009, and discusses the fair trade movement in Bolivia and South America; she uses ethnographic tools to present the attitudes of female fair-trade knitters and coffee growers; and she concludes by examining the differing cultures of Bolivia and the United States using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions paradigm.