Contributing Writer Dana Geffner I visited communities in the most impoverished areas in the world, sat in people’s living rooms […]
CONNECTING THE LINKS TO BUILD JUST SUPPLY CHAINS
Issue 11, Fall 2015
In this issue we lay out the limitations of current certification systems and discuss how some of these systems are trying to strengthen their standards while others are continuing to weaken them. Various experts in their fields talk about whether or not large-scale hired labor workplaces should be part of the fair trade model and we also learn about the power of farmers organizing, as told by one sugar farmer about a revolution that allowed his community to take back control of their crops and livelihoods. Creating a just economy also means raising the minimum wage in the U.S., in this issue we set the national stage for doing so, while also looking at it from a local viewpoint.
ARTICLES
Contributing Writer Harriet Lamb Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in The Huffington Post UK on June 10, 2015. […]
Contributing Writer Kathy Hoang In a city with one of the most unaffordable rents and a higher poverty rate than […]
Contributing Writer Yanet Lathrop These are exciting times for those of us working to increase the earnings of low-wage workers. […]
Contributing Writer Ryan Zinn At the height of the Great Depression, workers in the United States organized and created huge […]
Contributing Writer Andres Gonzalez Aguilera In 1975, in the Republic of Paraguay, the Cooperativa Manduvira Ltda., a credit union with […]
Introduction by Fair World Project with opinions from Rob Everts, Rosa Guamán and Tim Beaty The fair trade movement was […]
Contributing Writer Kerstin Lindgren Certification labels for consumer products are a tool that serve, on the surface, a simple purpose: […]