UNFAIR TRADE
Book ID/图书代码： 03540010B43673
English Summary/英文概要： How Big Business Exploits the World’s Poor and Why It Doesn’t Have To
How is it that our favourite brands can import billions of pounds worth of goods from the developing world every year, and yet leave the people who produce them barely scraping a living? Is it that big business is incompatible with the eradication of poverty? And, if so, are charity and fair trade initiatives the only way forward?
In Unfair Trade Conor Woodman traces a range of products back to their source to uncover who precisely is benefitting and who is losing out. He goes diving with lobster fishermen in Nicaragua who are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables of the US well stocked. He ventures into war-torn Congo to find out what the developed world’s insatiable demand for tin means for local miners. And he risks falling foul of the authorities in Laos as he covertly visits the country’s burgeoning rubber plantations, established to supply Chinese factories that in turn supply the West with consumer goods. In the process, he tests accepted economic wisdom on the best way to create a fairer world – and suggests a simpler but potentially far more radical solution.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们最喜爱的品牌每年从发展中国家进口价值数十亿的商品，而何以留给制造这些产品的人们，却仍然是重压下的拮据生活？大企业与消除贫困果真就是无法两立？而且，如果这样，慈善和公平贸易是唯一的出路？ 在《不公平贸易》中，作者康纳.伍德曼通过追溯一系列产品的原产地，来揭示谁是贸易的受益者，谁是受损者。他与尼加拉瓜的渔民近距离接触，这些渔民有生之年的使命似乎就是来保证美国餐桌的充足供应；他冒险踏入遭受战争蹂躏的刚果，查找发达国家无法满足的锡矿需求的真相；他还秘密访问了老挝新兴的橡胶种植园，供应给中国的工厂，产品销往西方世界。在这个过程中，他验证了一个容易被接受的、能够创造更公平交易、符合世界经济贸易智慧的的绝佳方式，并且提供了简单且更具可能性的解决方案。(FSF)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Conor Woodman三十多歲，大學主修經濟，畢業後於倫敦英美大型金融機構工作超過10年。Channel 4製作關於作者的特別節目Around the World in 80 Trades。目前作者正在尚比亞(Zambia)某地，尋找數百萬肯亞咖啡豆買主。 Conor Woodman is a former City analyst. In 2009, Channel 4 broadcast his four-part series, Around the World in 80 Trades, in which he sold his property and used GBP25,000 of the proceeds to kick-start his journey through 13 countries.
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