What is involved in implementing fair trade, particularly in a university environment? The speakers--scholars, corporate representatives, and activists-- are all committed to fair trade but offer a variety of perspectives about implementation.
The conference is sponsored by The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs with additional support from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, the Global Business Center, WISER (Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality), the West Coast Poverty Center, the UW Licensing Advisory Committee, and Law, Society, and Justice.
This conference is FREE of charge and open to the public!
Schedule:
Friday, February 8
| 3:30 - 5:00: | Richard Freeman, Labor Standards and Globalization are Complements (Location: Kane Hall 210) |
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| 7:30 - 10:00: | Outsourced screening and conversation with striking screen writers John Jeffcoat (co-writer and Director) and George Wing (co-writer and Executive Producer), as well as the Producer, Tom Gorai (Location: Kane Hall 120) |
Staturday, February 9 (Location: Parrington Hall Forum - 3rd floor)
- Wondwossen Mezlekia: Fair trade coffee activist and author of: poorfarmer.blogspot.com
- Lupe Gamboa: Program Officer for workers rights, Oxfam America
- Jeremy Simer: Organizing against CAFTA ...
- Rachel Taber: Student Labor Action Project (SLAP)
| 8:30: | Continental breakfast |
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| 9:15: | Welcome remarks: Steve Smith & Margaret Levi |
| 9:30 - 11:00: |
April Linton, Learning from Critiques of Fair Trade Certification Scott Nova, The Strategy of the WRC Discussant/Chair: Dan Jacoby |
| 11:15 - 12:30: | Corporate Responsibility Panel: Gregg Nebel (adidas Group), Joseph Whinney (Theo's Chocolates), and Aileen Carrell (Starbucks). Discussant/Chair: David Freiboth |
| 12:30 - 3:00: | Long Lunch (Caucuses today!) |
| 3:00 - 4:15: | After the WTO: Fair Trade Organizing In the Pacific Northwest Discussant/Chair: Richard Freeman |
| 4:30 - 6:00: | Nelsen Lichtenstein: Wal-Mart's Long March to China Gay Seidman: Citizens, markets, and transnational labor campaigns Discussant/Chair: Debra Glassman |
| 6:00 - 6:15: | Closing Remarks |
Academic Speakers:
- Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics.
- April Linton is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. Her work encompasses many aspects of globalization, including international migration and how trade is influencing development and environmental outcomes. She is co-editor of The Global Governance of Food: Production, Consumption, and the Environment (forthcoming from Routledge). Her most recent paper is about how Fair Trade producer groups are spending their Fair Trade social premiums.
- Nelson Lichtenstein is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he directs the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He is the author of State of the Union: A Century of American Labor and editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the 20th Century. He is finishing Sam's World: Wal-Mart and 21st Century Capitalism.
- Gay Seidman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research has focused on labor movements in developing areas, especially in Southern Africa and Latin America. Her most recent book, Beyond the Boycott (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007) examined transnational labor campaigns in South Africa, India and Guatemala.