2017, ISBN: 9781844071999

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Penguin Books, 2017-07-04. New.. Winifred Gallagher's books include Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life (a New York Times bestseller), New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Chang… Plus…

Penguin Books, 2017-07-04. New.. Winifred Gallagher's books include Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life (a New York Times bestseller), New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, House Thinking, Just the Way You Are (a New York Times Notable Book), and The Power of Place She has written for numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times She lives in New York City and Dubois, WyomingA masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation's political, social, economic, and physical development The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the US government's largest and most important endeavorindeed, it was the government for most citizens This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizena radical idea that appalled Europe's great powers America's uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world's information and communications superpower with astonishing speed Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America's own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries The mandate to deliver the mailthen "the media"imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices The post was the catalyst of the nation's transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system Still one of the country's two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country's increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step Now the post office is at a crossroads Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first centuryGallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America, Penguin Books, 2017-07-04, 6, Earthscan Publications/Viva Books Private Limited, 2007. Hardcover. New. Description: Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstream of food retailing. Large supermarkets have come under pressure to improve the returns to small producers and conditions of employment within their supply chains. But how effective is ethical sourcing? Can it genuinely address the problems facing workers and producers in the global food system? Is it a new form of northern protectionism or can southern initiatives be developed to create a more sustainable approach to ethical sourcing? How can the rights and participation of workers and small producers be enhanced, given the power and dominance of large supermarkets within the global food chain? What role can civil society and multistakeholder initiatives play in ensuring the effectiveness of ethical sourcing? This book brings together a range of academics and practitioners working on issues of ethical sourcing in the global food system. It critically explores the opportunities and challenges in the ethical sourcing of food by combining analysis and case studies that examine a range of approaches. It explores whether ethical sourcing is a cosmetic northern initiative, or can genuinely help to improve the conditions of small producers and workers in the current global food system. Contents: List of Figures, Tables and Boxes • List of Contributors • Acknowledgements • Preface by Tim Lang • List of Acronyms and Abbreviations • Transformation of Global Food: Opportunities and Challenges for Fair and Ethical Trade • The Development of Alternative and Fair Trade: Moving into the Mainstream • Organic and Fair Trade Movements in Global Food Networks • Corporate Social Responsibility from a Supermarket Perspective: Approach of the Co-operative Group • Ethical Trade: What Does It Mean for Women Workers in African Horticulture? • Central American Banana Production: Women Workers and Chiquita’s Ethical Sourcing from Plantations • The Gangmaster System in the UK Perspective of a Trade Unionist • Participatory Social Auditing: Developing a Worker-focused Approach • Oxfam’s Coffee Campaign: An NGO Perspective • Small Producers: Constraints and Challenges in the Global Food System • Conluding Reflections on the Future of Ethical Sourcing • Glossary of Selected Fair and Ethical Trade Organizations • Index Printed Pages: 224., Earthscan Publications/Viva Books Private Limited, 2007, 6<

2007, ISBN: 9781844071999

Earthscan Publications/Viva Books Private Limited, 2007. Hardcover. New. Description: Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstrea… Plus…

Earthscan Publications/Viva Books Private Limited, 2007. Hardcover. New. Description: Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstream of food retailing. Large supermarkets have come under pressure to improve the returns to small producers and conditions of employment within their supply chains. But how effective is ethical sourcing? Can it genuinely address the problems facing workers and producers in the global food system? Is it a new form of northern protectionism or can southern initiatives be developed to create a more sustainable approach to ethical sourcing? How can the rights and participation of workers and small producers be enhanced, given the power and dominance of large supermarkets within the global food chain? What role can civil society and multistakeholder initiatives play in ensuring the effectiveness of ethical sourcing? This book brings together a range of academics and practitioners working on issues of ethical sourcing in the global food system. It critically explores the opportunities and challenges in the ethical sourcing of food by combining analysis and case studies that examine a range of approaches. It explores whether ethical sourcing is a cosmetic northern initiative, or can genuinely help to improve the conditions of small producers and workers in the current global food system. Contents: List of Figures, Tables and Boxes List of Contributors Acknowledgements Preface by Tim Lang List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Transformation of Global Food: Opportunities and Challenges for Fair and Ethical Trade The Development of Alternative and Fair Trade: Moving into the Mainstream Organic and Fair Trade Movements in Global Food Networks Corporate Social Responsibility from a Supermarket Perspective: Approach of the Co-operative Group Ethical Trade: What Does It Mean for Women Workers in African Horticulture? Central American Banana Production: Women Workers and Chiquitas Ethical Sourcing from Plantations The Gangmaster System in the UK Perspective of a Trade Unionist Participatory Social Auditing: Developing a Worker-focused Approach Oxfams Coffee Campaign: An NGO Perspective Small Producers: Constraints and Challenges in the Global Food System Conluding Reflections on the Future of Ethical Sourcing Glossary of Selected Fair and Ethical Trade Organizations Index Printed Pages: 224. NA, Earthscan Publications/Viva Books Private Limited, 2007, 6<

ISBN: 9781844071999

Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstream of food retailing. Large supermarkets have come under pressure to improve the returns … Plus…

Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is increasingly entering the mainstream of food retailing. Large supermarkets have come under pressure to improve the returns to small producers and conditions of employment within their supply chains. But how effective is ethical sourcing? Can it genuinely address the problems facing workers and producers in the global food system? Is it a new form of northern protectionism or can southern initiatives be developed to create a more sustainable approach to ethical sourcing? How can the rights and participation of workers and small producers be enhanced, given the power and dominance of large supermarkets within the global food chain? What role can civil society and multistakeholder initiatives play in ensuring the effectiveness of ethical sourcing?This book brings together a range of academics and practitioners working on issues of ethical sourcing in the global food system. It critically explores the opportunities and challenges in the ethical sourcing of food by combining analysis and case studies that examine a range of approaches. It explores whether ethical sourcing is a cosmetic northern initiative, or can genuinely help to improve the conditions of small producers and workers in the current global food system. Books, [PU: Earthscan]<

2006, ISBN: 9781844071999

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