–Rumika Suzuki
Resources
Berger, L. “She’s crafty: World of Good brings female artisans’ wares to global markets.” Stanford Social Innovation Review 6.3 (2008): 71-72.
Jones, Elaine, Sally Smith, and Carol Wills. Trading our way up: women organizing for fair trade. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), 2011.
Fair trade. (2012). In Ray Anderson (Ed.), Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability: The Americas and Oceania: Assessing sustainability. Retrieved from https://login.ezproxy-eres.up.edu/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/berkao/fair_trade/0
“The future of fair trade … is there one?” Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). Eds. Patricia Chin-Sweeney & Jason Spindler. 06 June 2011. Web. 19 October 2014.
Statistical number in infographic:
http://www.slideshare.net/fairtrade/women-and-fairtrade
I like that you talked about what economic empowerment means to women, I for one, did not think that the growing value of artison work, empowered women in any way. However I do not think that there is a lack of awareness of Fair trade, at least not in the Western Hemisphere, there is so much media portrayal of this issue its hard not to know about it.
I found this inforgraphic interesting and very easy to understand. There is a lot of press around Fair Trade, but I would say not too many Westerners know what that really entails. I liked your perspective on how it especially affects women, and found your last point very captivating. We have tons advertisements here about fair trade, but I think it would be more beneficial to advertise Fair Trade to developing countries.
Now I wonder if you found any negative affects to Fair Trade – to either Westerners or to the workers.