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Abstract: Gresser shows how his fellow liberals who look to put the brakes on globalization have unwittingly turned their backs on the poor, and have abandoned a tradition heralded by Roosvelt, Kennedy, and Clinton. American liberals have forgotten where they come from, and they have little idea how to move forward in finding solutions for global aconomic problems.

Abstract: In this book, a unique hybrid of Fair Trade business study, adventure travel, and cultural anthropology, author and coffee enterpreneur Dean Cycon introduces readers to the real people who make our morning coffee ritual possible-people that few, if any, outsiders have ever seen.

Abstract: From America to the Zapatistas, from Arcadia to the Battle for Seattle, this fascinating look at the history and reality of alternative ideas and organizations. All too often, ordinary people are told that the problems of organization are already solved and don't concern them because they have no choice. This dictionary provides those who disagree with evidence to the contrary.

Abstract: This study begin with an eye towards the power structures of global capitalism, and seeks to provide a framework for situating fair trade within the "big questions" of historically informed development theory.

Abstract: Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the worls. But is it working? This vivid study of indigenous coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. It explorers the changing politics of the international fair international fair trade, illuminating the complex dynamic of this alternative market and its relationshio to the global economy.

Abstract: This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and sustainability through market-based social change.