As service providers, citizens, employees and activists, we each have a stake in the discussion of labour, its availability, and scope. Here gathered are some of the thoughts, stories, and research through which our contributors are pushing the conversation forward. (Mostly written by me, LOL)
Recent Posts
Production Unity? Coffee at a Crossroads
As the coffee industry players consolidate (SCAA/SCAE as SCA & UTZ into the Rainforest Alliance), a World Coffee Producers forum has been inaugurated at last. The forum proposed as a starting point a “study [that] will be conducted by an independent body to analyze the behavior of coffee prices in the last 40 years, production … Continue reading Production Unity? Coffee at a Crossroads
Spicy Longform of the Week: Wealth Politics
Titled “Hell is Empty and All the Hedge-Fund Managers are at the Balagio,” Hamilton Nola’s article basically sums up what Fitzgerald was intimating in The Great Gatsby. In the words of Nolan: “To be very rich is to have the luxury of constructing a plausible theory of morality that allows you to hold on to … Continue reading Spicy Longform of the Week: Wealth Politics
Direct Trade Coffee: All the Thoughts Collide
But there is also a challenge: the challenge of greed in context of a commodity exchanged between one market agent with enormous wealth / power and one agent whose livelihood is dependent on farming inedible beans.
Thoughts on illy & Ethiopia
While Ethiopia has, of course, been producing coffee longer than Americans have been consuming it, we must attribute some of the value to 3rd-wave coffee’s promotion of bright African coffees for the general consumer. And, of course, the key to this development has been the almost anti-government, private force of direct-trade.
LABOUR THOUGHT 