Fair-trade coffee and commodity fetishism: The limits of market-driven social justice

Historical Materialism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 79-104

  Fridell, Gavin ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coffee; Commodity fetishism; Fair trade; Social justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249044361     PISSN: 14654466     EISSN: 1569206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156920607X245841     Document Type: Review

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