Research Catalog

Title

Fair bananas! : farmers, workers, and consumers strive to change an industry / Henry J. Frundt.

Author

Frundt, Henry J.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2009.

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Description

xvii, 273 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Examines the issue of "fair-trade bananas," the most-consumed fruit in the world. While as many as ten million people are involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, American consumers have only recently begun to think about the workers and their working conditions. Analyses whether a farmer-worker-consumer alliance could collaborate to promote a fair-trade label for bananas that would appeal to North American shoppers.

Alternative Title

Farmers, workers, and consumers strive to change an industry

Subject

Banana trade

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-266) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Competing meanings of fairness -- Corporate banana structures -- The fair trade alternative -- Actors for banana development -- Going bananas as a social movement -- The persistent banana environment -- Conundrums of the banana trade -- Resilience of banana unions -- Peasants of the Caribbean and fairer trade -- The Chiquita accord and labor responses -- The new banana-marketing strategies -- Fair trade and freedom of association -- Dole : reluctant fairness -- A proposal for fairer trade -- Toward a sustainable banana alliance.

ISBN

• 9780816527205 (alk. paper)
• 0816527202 (alk. paper)
• 9780816528363 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0816528365 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008048772

OCLC

• 272306063
• SCSB-12018842

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Harvard Library