Pricing fair trade products to include unpaid labour and empower women – the example of Nicaraguan sesame and coffee cooperatives

<p>The paper discusses an initiative taking place in two cooperatives in Nicaragua. This involves the incorporation of a component for women&rsquo;s unpaid work into the cost structures of Fair Trade contracts for coffee and sesame. The argument is that the unpaid work which is done mainly...

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Main Authors: Felicity Butler, Nicholas Hoskyns, Catherine Hoskyns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2012-05-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2034322