Privatizing farm worker justice: Regulating labor through voluntary certification and labeling

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Who decides what is fair in fair trade? The agri-environmental governance of standards, access, and price (2010, background): “This clarifies criteria for identifying potential participants in the society-based component of a double movement, but how do we know it when we see it? Some have argued convincingly that many third party certification systems partially resist but also re-inscribe neoliberal thinking (Guthman 2007”
The Intersection of Planning, Urban Agriculture, and Food Justice: A Review of the Literature (2017, background): “Communities of color, for example, have time and time again been excluded from food production and prevented from owning and managing their own land, though they are often exploited as farm laborers (S. Brown & Getz, 2008 ; Shreck, Getz, & Feenstra, 2006 ; Yen Liu & Apollon, 2011 ).”
Weak Coffee: Certification and Co-Optation in the Fair Trade Movement (2012, background): “…retailers, toward longer, conventional, or “captive” chains marked by vertically integrated transnational firms, waged labor, and agribusiness plantations, and also toward the “buyer-driven” chains controlled by retailers (Brown and Getz 2008; Mutersbaugh 2005a; Raynolds andWilkinson 2007).”