Artisans and Fair Trade: Crafting Development - Softcover

Littrell, Mary Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565493214 ISBN 13: 9781565493216

Verlag: Lynne Rienner, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

After agriculture and tourism, artisan work provides the next most significant source of income in many developing countries. Yet because of its image as a 'soft' or frivolous industry, some politicians and development professionals question whether the handcraft sector is worthy of investment. An opposing view holds that the creation of sustainable employment opportunities for poor people and a positive alternative to mass production outweighs the costs. Until now, the debate has been hampered by a lack of industry data. The Indian apparel group, MarketPlace serves as the perfect case study to provide this missing information. Like many fair trade companies, it has dual goals: to generate income in the global marketplace and foster the empowerment of the low-income workers who run and staff the business. In conducting interviews with MarketPlace's artisans, managers, and founders, Littrell and Dickson produced an in-depth socioeconomic audit of the group over time. The result, "Artisans in the Global Marketplace", provides a quantitatively and qualitatively illuminating study of fair trade claims versus impacts and a methodology for assessing fair trade accountability that is sure to inform current practices in social entrepreneurship and business social responsibility.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lynne Rienner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565493214
• ISBN 13: 9781565493216
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230
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