Josh Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josh Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josh |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In search of dignified work
After building the first worker-owned free trade zone in the world, the women of the Fair Trade Zone in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, rejected fair trade and elected to go their own way. The small cooperative's decision, as well as their claim to be seeking "dignified work" (trabajo digno), does not express the existing norms and conventions of a local moral economy. Rather, it stems from an alternative work ethic that was formed through their parti…
Fair or Balanced
This article tracks the rise and fall of the Fair Trade Zone, the first worker-owned "free trade zone" in the world. A partnership between a small development NGO and a small fair trade retailer from the US initiated the project in 1999, but a power struggle that arose between these two organizations and the worker-owners of the co-op in 2007 ultimately led to the co-op's withdrawal. This case study reflects on the rhetorical role of the concepts…
Building Consciousness
Based on ethnographic research conducted in Nicaragua in 2007 during the early phases of the building of an industrial cotton spinning cooperative called Génesis, this article recounts an implementation of the Organization Workshop (OW), a large-scale enterprise-building and employment-generation workshop based on the ideas of Brazilian scholar-activists Clodomir Santos de Morais and Paulo Freire. The story of the Génesis OW, however, is not one …
In search of dignified work
After building the first worker-owned free trade zone in the world, the women of the Fair Trade Zone in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, rejected fair trade and elected to go their own way. The small cooperative's decision, as well as their claim to be seeking "dignified work" (trabajo digno), does not express the existing norms and conventions of a local moral economy. Rather, it stems from an alternative work ethic that was formed through their parti…
Fair or Balanced
This article tracks the rise and fall of the Fair Trade Zone, the first worker-owned "free trade zone" in the world. A partnership between a small development NGO and a small fair trade retailer from the US initiated the project in 1999, but a power struggle that arose between these two organizations and the worker-owners of the co-op in 2007 ultimately led to the co-op's withdrawal. This case study reflects on the rhetorical role of the concepts…
Building Consciousness
Based on ethnographic research conducted in Nicaragua in 2007 during the early phases of the building of an industrial cotton spinning cooperative called Génesis, this article recounts an implementation of the Organization Workshop (OW), a large-scale enterprise-building and employment-generation workshop based on the ideas of Brazilian scholar-activists Clodomir Santos de Morais and Paulo Freire. The story of the Génesis OW, however, is not one …
Building Consciousness
Based on ethnographic research conducted in Nicaragua in 2007 during the early phases of the building of an industrial cotton spinning cooperative called Génesis, this article recounts an implementation of the Organization Workshop (OW), a large-scale enterprise-building and employment-generation workshop based on the ideas of Brazilian scholar-activists Clodomir Santos de Morais and Paulo Freire. The story of the Génesis OW, however, is not one …
Fair or Balanced
This article tracks the rise and fall of the Fair Trade Zone, the first worker-owned "free trade zone" in the world. A partnership between a small development NGO and a small fair trade retailer from the US initiated the project in 1999, but a power struggle that arose between these two organizations and the worker-owners of the co-op in 2007 ultimately led to the co-op's withdrawal. This case study reflects on the rhetorical role of the concepts…
In search of dignified work
After building the first worker-owned free trade zone in the world, the women of the Fair Trade Zone in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, rejected fair trade and elected to go their own way. The small cooperative's decision, as well as their claim to be seeking "dignified work" (trabajo digno), does not express the existing norms and conventions of a local moral economy. Rather, it stems from an alternative work ethic that was formed through their parti…
Economics (2 works) · Fair trade (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · International trade (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Capital (architecture (1 work) · Crucible (geodemography (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work)