Fair Trade Enclaves: Labour and Livelihoods in Costa Ricas Banana Industry [Hardcover]

Fair Trade Enclaves?tells the story of exploitation in the production of Fair Trade bananas. The book is valuable reading for scholars of Anthropology, Development and Latin American Studies.

Layla Zaglul Ruiz is a Canning House Research Fellow in the Latin America and Caribbean Center at the London School of Economics, UK.

Acknowledgments  1. Introduction  Disjunctions in the Fair Trade Movement  Fair Trade enclaves within neoliberalism  The discourse of crisis  Self-exploitation and co-ownership  Research methods and positionality  Book structure   2. Producing bananas  Producing bananas in Costa Rica  Producing Alianza (and Cach?) bananas  Conclusions  3. Fair trade contradictions  Contracts  Working hours and payment  Freedom of association  Conclusions  4. Materializing power on the shop floor  Cach?: controlling through conflict and violence  Alianza: Relatedness and kinship on the shopfloor  Conclusions  5. Discourse of crisis in public and private spheres  The shop floor in crisis  Conclusion  6. The cost of quality  The evolution of banana quality standards  Surviving the market with extra-class bananas  More restrictions, the same perfect fruit  Is first-class consumption ethical?  Conclusion  7. The lack of social capital  Agrofairs modus operandi  Conclusion  8. Conclusilã’