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Article: Beyond sweatshops: fair trade, co-op development and the birth of a new economy.
- Article from:
- Tok Blong Pasifik
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Pacific People's Partnership. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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What is a cup of fairly-traded coffee worth to you? Do you care if your cocoa is produced at a worker-owned cooperative? What would our economy look like if sweatshop labour were eliminated? What would we give up as consumers? What would we gain? And what does any of this have to do with South Pacific peoples?
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