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Is fair trade fair?

2018· article· en· W2808177962 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Isaac K. Berry

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VenueSaint Mary's University Institutional Repository (Saint Mary's University) · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicGlobal trade, sustainability, and social impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEconomicsBusinessInternational trade
DOInot available

Abstract

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The global market is incredibly interconnected and interdependent.However, massive inequalities in wealth and poverty exist throughout, with the richest 1% gaining 82% of the wealth produced last year, while the poorest 3.7 billion people saw absolutely no wealth increase (Ratcliff, 2018).Fair Trade attempts to address these global issues by increasing demand for "ethical" goods.Fair Trade has become a global endeavour involving over 70 countries.Allowing 1.66 million farmers with global sales to reach 7.88 Billion Euros and in 2015, 138 million Euros were paid in social premiums (an additional payment to producers to use for social goals) (Fairtrade.2018).Despite this, the FLO admits its payments do not meet a living wage (Fairtrade Canada, 2018).This begs the question: is it possible to create a fairer and more just global system through fair trade certification?Or, is Fair Trade fair?Firstly, what is justice or fairness?Justice is born from relations of communities, concerned with giving people what they deserve (Amartya Sen 2009), based on a platform of fairness.Fairness is a necessary component of justice, it's an equitable structure which justice can be measured (Rawls, 1990;Isbister, 2001).In moral obligation groups, there are principals in attaining justice, equality, freedom and efficiency (Isbister, 2001).Justice is not merely contractual (Wein, 1987), but requires a structure of fairness to measure justice.Fairness requires cooperation and trust.The market derives from social life (Polanyi, 1944, Wood, 1999).Today's global market is defined by economic globalization and neoliberalism, which perceives the market as an amoral ideological mechanism.Although people are not amoral, the market being from social life, has normative repercussions.Fair Trade exists within market forces, which attempts to address global inequalities.However, fair Trade does not adequately provide a structure of fairness, therefore cannot provide justice. May 1, 2018Chapter 1 What is Justice?Justice is concerned with people getting what they deserve.It is a dynamic between a judge and the judged, and therefore is relational.It is also therefore subjective.It is not simply the fulfillment of a rule because that doesn't focus on giving one what is deserved.In this way justice is also different from charity because charity is not related to what is deserved.Justice is not simply an act done to or a people group someone to bring about some kind of action, but is also something that is deserved by a person or a group.Once again, justice is relational and concerned with what people deserve.Amartya Sens (2009) idea of justice is a critique of "transcendental institutionalism" and argument for a "realization focused comparison".Transcendental institutionalism is trying to find the perfect rules to bring about perfect justice.Sen criticizes this by telling the story of three kids and a flute.The story goes that there are three kids.Anne, Bob and Clara, each who are arguing over who deserves a flute, of which there is only one.Anne explains that she is the only one who knows how to play the flute, therefor she should be the one to get the flute.Bob explains that because he has no toys at all, and both Anne and Clara have lots of toys, that he should be the one to get the flute.Clara argues that because she was the one who made the flute she should be the one to keep it.Sen (2009) Uses this story to emphasize that one could argue impartially for each one to be given the flute.The point put forward is an argument for "realization focused comparison" (Amartya Sen, 2009).The essence is that justice is relational.It is determined by the group.It is not

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.022
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.064
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.114

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0220.064
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.033
Scholarly communication0.0240.023
Open science0.0020.007
Research integrity0.0130.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0320.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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