Trade

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A Brief History of Fair Trade

A Brief History of Fair Trade

From Charity to Autonomy and Justice

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter examines the complex relationships between small producer organizations and Northern NGOs. It concludes with a brief account of the causes of the mission drift within the certifying … 12 $1.20 Add
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A Digression

A Digression

Elsewhere in the World

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Culture and media policies adopted by New Zealand and South Korea at the time of trade negotiations between Canada and the United States offer a contrasting example to Canadian policies.. 5 $0.50 Add
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A Lively Bean that Brightens Lives

A Lively Bean that Brightens Lives

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This illustrated chapter tells the story of Ethiopian coffee in comicbook form. 13 $1.30 Add
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A New Approach to Culture and Trade

A New Approach to Culture and Trade

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Measures and methods that can protect Canadian cultural identity. Using Canada’s trade relationship with China as an example, offers a blueprint for trade agreements that can protect … 15 $1.50 Add
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A Wider Array of Interacting Balances

A Wider Array of Interacting Balances

From: Peasants and the Art of Farming

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Against the Grain

Against the Grain

From: Alternative Trade

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Alternative Trade

Alternative Trade

Legacies for the Future

Free trade does not make a significantly positive contribution to a society’s well being, nor does real free trade exist. In Alternative Trade, Gavin Fridell confronts these assumptions … 175 View
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Canada and Free Trade with the United States

Canada and Free Trade with the United States

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Summarizes Canada’s trade history with the United States and explains how Canadian culture is impacted by America’s. Reviews Canada’s trade agreements with the United States … 22 $2.20 Add
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Canadian Cultural Policymaking in the Digital Era

Canadian Cultural Policymaking in the Digital Era

From: Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

How the rise of digital media has affected cultural industries in Canada, specifically music, book and magazine publishing, radio, televsion and film arts. Analyzes the reaction of the Justin … 28 $2.80 Add
Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

Canadian Culture in a Globalized World

The impact of trade deals on Canada's cultural life

Since the first trade deal with the US in 1984, Canada has insisted on a "cultural exemption" to ensure that governments were free to protect Canadian culture and to restrict foreign … 256 View
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Chapter 4: Oil and minerals: Canada’s secret stake in Afghanistan
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Chapter 4: Oil and minerals: Canada’s secret stake in Afghanistan

From: Canada In Afghanistan

In this chapter, Schalk discusses the abundance of gas, oil, and minerals that made Afghanistan an attractive entity to control. Schalk details both Canada and The United States’ attempts … 11 $1.10 Add
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Climate Justice?

Climate Justice?

Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee!

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … 11 $1.10 Add
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Coffee Fix

Coffee Fix

From: Alternative Trade

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Colonialism

Colonialism

How Unfair Trade Changed the World

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter provides a short history of colonialism, and describes how the economic benefits of colonialism flowed from the colonized to the colonizers, especially through a process of resource … 10 $1.00 Add
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COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate Power

COVID-19, Trade, and Corporate Power

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

This chapter demonstrates that the international trade framework systematically reduces national sovereignty and democracy, disempowers governments that seek to enact policies to protect people … 12 $1.20 Add
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Crisis and Restructuring

Crisis and Restructuring

From: Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions

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