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The Politics of Fair Trade Consumption: A U.S. Perspective

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  • Burns, Caroline Josephine

    (Saint Mary's College of California)

  • Ibrahim, Ameera

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On analysis of data from 350 fair trade consumers we found evidence that suggests fair trade consumption seems to be tinged with political activism at least in a U. S. context. We asked consumers whether politics was meaningful in their consumption practices and on regressing the data we found that there is a positive influence of politics as a decision-making criteria and the frequency of fair trade purchases. That is to say, the more consumers report that they use politics in their consumption decision-making process the more fair trade they purchase.

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  • Burns, Caroline Josephine & Ibrahim, Ameera, 2018. "The Politics of Fair Trade Consumption: A U.S. Perspective," OSF Preprints n74hk, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:n74hk
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/n74hk
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