{"title":"Alternatives","authors":"A. Akram‐Lodhi","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1492081","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Fair trade has been presented by its advocates as a progressive rural development strategy. Fair trade is, however, a specific configuration of capitalist relations of exploitation in which exploitation takes two forms: the exploitation of labour and monopsonistic exploitation. Moreover, these processes are strongly gendered. As such, fair trade serves to deepen the character of the capitalist market imperatives subordinating peasant farmers and rural workers.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"213 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1492081","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Political Economy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1492081","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Fair trade has been presented by its advocates as a progressive rural development strategy. Fair trade is, however, a specific configuration of capitalist relations of exploitation in which exploitation takes two forms: the exploitation of labour and monopsonistic exploitation. Moreover, these processes are strongly gendered. As such, fair trade serves to deepen the character of the capitalist market imperatives subordinating peasant farmers and rural workers.
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Studies in Political Economy is an interdisciplinary journal committed to the publication of original work in the various traditions of socialist political economy. Researchers and analysts within these traditions seek to understand how political, economic and cultural processes and struggles interact to shape and reshape the conditions of people"s lives.