Fair Trade Enclaves

Fair Trade Enclaves tells the story of exploitation in the production of Fair Trade bananas. The book is valuable reading for scholars of Anthropology, Development and Latin American Studies.

Layla Zaglul Ruiz is a Canning House Research Fellow in the Latin America and Caribbean Center at the London School of Economics, UK.

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Disjunctions in the Fair Trade Movement Fair Trade enclaves within neoliberalism The discourse of crisis Self-exploitation and co-ownership Research methods and positionality Book structure 2. Producing bananas Producing bananas in Costa Rica Producing Alianza (and Caché) bananas Conclusions 3. Fair trade contradictions Contracts Working hours and payment Freedom of association Conclusions 4. Materializing power on the shop floor Caché: controlling through conflict and violence Alianza: Relatedness and kinship on the shopfloor Conclusions 5. Discourse of crisis in public and private spheres The shop floor in crisis Conclusion 6. The cost of quality The evolution of banana quality standards Surviving the market with extra-class bananas More restrictions, the same 'perfect fruit' Is first-class consumption ethical? Conclusion 7. The lack of social capital Agrofair's modus operandi Conclusion 8. Conclusion. Index