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Free trade demands cheap labour
The call for cheap labour is becoming louder and louder in today’s world of free trade and economic liberalisation. In many developing countries this has a disturbing affect on human rights and especially labour rights....
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Fair Trade and Labour Rights
A product merits to be called ‘traded fairly’ if each part of the supply chain got a fair deal. Both those who grow (the small-scale farmers, that grow coffee, cocoa or cotton, for example) and those who produce (coffee roasters, etc) are paid a decent price for their work. As a result they are able to make a living without having to struggle for survival each day. A fair price is one that is above the prices on the world market, which are artificially kept low by subsidies of industrialised nations to their domestic products....
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