L T Raynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 3727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L T Raynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | L T |
| FAMILY NAME | Raynolds |
| SIGNATURE | RAYNOLDS L T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5795-3169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 632 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Social reproduction in crisis: Gendered labour regimes in agro‐export sectors in Ecuador and Chile
The pandemic lays bare the centrality of social reproduction in upholding global commodity networks. Capitalism's reliance on gendered and racialized systems of social reproduction has deepened structural contradictions and socio‐economic divides across agro‐export sectors and agrarian communities. We analyse how COVID‐19 policies and responses in Ecuador and Chile are reshaping systems of social and labour protection in feminized agro‐export sec…
Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador
This article analyzes the strategic potential and empirical challenges of private governance in promoting decent work in global agriculture by curtailing buyer power and fostering labor agency, drawing lessons from Fairtrade International-certified flower plantations in Ecuador. The study explains (1) Fairtrade’s logic in promoting ‘trade fairness’ and ‘worker empowerment’ and operationalization of these values via its certification standards, (2…
Fair Trade USA coffee plantation certification: Ramifications for workers in Nicaragua
Gender equity, labor rights, and women’s empowerment: Lessons from Fairtrade certification in Ecuador flower plantations
Fairtrade Certification, Labor Standards, and Labor Rights
Fairtrade International certification is the primary social certification in the agro-food sector intended to promote the well-being and empowerment of farmers and workers in the Global South. Although Fairtrade's farmer program is well studied, far less is known about its labor certification. Helping fill this gap, this article provides a systematic account of Fairtrade's labor certification system and standards and compares it to four other vol…
Bridging North/South divides through consumer driven networks
Scholars and activists have sought to identify avenues for addressing rising global disparities, focusing largely on reconfiguring production. This chapter shifts our focus to the realm of consumption, exploring the challenges and opportunities for consumers and consumption activities to help bridge global North/South divides. It proposes that a theoretical synthesis of these approaches is essential for understanding the possibilities for bridgin…
Fairtrade labour certification: The contested incorporation of plantations and workers
Fair trade seeks to promote the well-being and empowerment of farmers and workers in the Global South. This article traces the contested growth and configuration of Fairtrade International labour certification, providing a multifaceted and dynamic view of private regulation. I explain why Fairtrade International began certifying large enterprises and how its hired labour strategy has developed over time, illuminating fair trade’s move from peasan…
Fairtrade, certification, and labor: Global and local tensions in improving conditions for agricultural workers
Fair Trade: Social regulation in global food markets
Fair Trade Flowers: Global Certification, Environmental Sustainability, and Labor Standards
This article analyzes the organization of the fair trade flower industry, integration ofEcuadorian enterprises into these networks, and power of certification to address key environmental and social concerns on participating estates. Pursuing a social regulatory approach, I locate fair trade within the field of new institutions that establish and enforce production criteria in international markets. My research finds that while firm owners and ma…
Capitalism, Agriculture and World Economy
Fair Trade Rooibos tea: Connecting South African producers and American consumer markets
The Organic Agro-Export Boom in the Dominican Republic: Maintaining Tradition or Fostering Transformation
The Dominican Republic has emerged as the world's foremost exporter of organic bananas and cocoa, a top exporter of organic coffee, and an export pioneer in new commodities like organic mangos. Pursuing a contextualized commodity network approach, I explain the rise of organic products within the broader forces fueling nontraditional agro-export growth and identify the key factors confi guring organic export networks today. The article analyzes t…
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to Traceability
Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives
Product Review: Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
The future of Fair Trade coffee: Dilemmas facing Latin America's small-scale producers
Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America's coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden Fair Trade's economic impact among poor, small-scale producers are creating challenges for deepening the politi…
Keeping trade fair: Governance challenges in the fair trade coffee initiative
Fair trade has gained attention as an innovative market‐based mechanism for addressing social and environmental problems exacerbated by conventional global markets. Yet such initiatives are also regulatory mechanisms that establish voluntary alternative arrangements for governing production, commercialization and consumption of global commodities. Based on a recent study of fair trade coffee experiences in Latin America, this paper explores the c…
Fair trade coffee: Building producer capacity via global networks
This article examines the ongoing rapid expansion in Fair Trade coffee networks linking Northern consumers with producers in the global South. We provide a comparative analysis of the experiences of seven coffee producer co‐operatives in Latin America, identifying the characteristics which facilitate successful integration into Fair Trade networks. Our analysis finds that coffee organizations, communities and producers derive important material a…
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks
Wages for Wives: Renegotiating Gender and Production Relations in Contract Farming in the Dominican Republic
Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks
This article analyzes the multifaceted connections linking consumers and producers in expanding North/South Fair Trade coffee networks. I develop a commodity network framework that builds on the commodity chain tradition, integrating insights from cultural studies, actor-network theory, and conventions approaches. This framework illuminates how material and ideological relations are negotiated across production and consumption arenas. In the case…
New Plantations, New Workers: Gender and Production Politics in the Dominican Republic
This study analyzes the gendered nature of recent production and labor force restructuring in the Dominican Republic. Using a longitudinal case study of work relations on a large transnational corporate pineapple plantation, the author explores the production politics involved in the initial corporate attempt to create a wage labor force and the subsequent replacement of employees with contracted labor crews. She demonstrates how female, and then…
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks
Re-embedding global agriculture: The international organic and fair trade movements
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to Traceability
Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks
This article analyzes the multifaceted connections linking consumers and producers in expanding North/South Fair Trade coffee networks. I develop a commodity network framework that builds on the commodity chain tradition, integrating insights from cultural studies, actor-network theory, and conventions approaches. This framework illuminates how material and ideological relations are negotiated across production and consumption arenas. In the case…
Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives
Fair Trade: Social regulation in global food markets
Alternative trade in bananas: Obstacles and opportunities for progressive social change in the global economy
Keeping trade fair: Governance challenges in the fair trade coffee initiative
Fair trade has gained attention as an innovative market‐based mechanism for addressing social and environmental problems exacerbated by conventional global markets. Yet such initiatives are also regulatory mechanisms that establish voluntary alternative arrangements for governing production, commercialization and consumption of global commodities. Based on a recent study of fair trade coffee experiences in Latin America, this paper explores the c…
The “new” internationalization of agriculture: A reformulation
Our research on the “new” internationalization of agriculture builds on analyses of the internationalization of capital and the New International Division of Labor, but reformulates “internationalization” as a contingent, political and economic process. We argue that shifts in the institutional structure of capitalism in the 1980s profoundly altered national policy options and agro-food markets. States, such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Domini…
Wages for Wives: Renegotiating Gender and Production Relations in Contract Farming in the Dominican Republic
Fair Trade Flowers: Global Certification, Environmental Sustainability, and Labor Standards
This article analyzes the organization of the fair trade flower industry, integration ofEcuadorian enterprises into these networks, and power of certification to address key environmental and social concerns on participating estates. Pursuing a social regulatory approach, I locate fair trade within the field of new institutions that establish and enforce production criteria in international markets. My research finds that while firm owners and ma…
Fair Trade Rooibos tea: Connecting South African producers and American consumer markets
Fairtrade, certification, and labor: Global and local tensions in improving conditions for agricultural workers
The future of Fair Trade coffee: Dilemmas facing Latin America's small-scale producers
Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America's coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden Fair Trade's economic impact among poor, small-scale producers are creating challenges for deepening the politi…
New Plantations, New Workers: Gender and Production Politics in the Dominican Republic
This study analyzes the gendered nature of recent production and labor force restructuring in the Dominican Republic. Using a longitudinal case study of work relations on a large transnational corporate pineapple plantation, the author explores the production politics involved in the initial corporate attempt to create a wage labor force and the subsequent replacement of employees with contracted labor crews. She demonstrates how female, and then…
Harnessing Women's Work: Restructuring Agricultural and Industrial Labor Forces in the Dominican Republic
The recent period of crisis and adjustment in Latin America and the Caribbean is fueling a fundamentally gendered process of labor force restructuring in both agriculture and industry. An analysis of ongoing changes in the Dominican Republic finds that one of the most striking shifts in the labor market landscape involves women's increasing incorporation into nontraditional agriculture and export manufacturing. The Dominican state and corporation…
Gender equity, labor rights, and women’s empowerment: Lessons from Fairtrade certification in Ecuador flower plantations
Fairtrade labour certification: The contested incorporation of plantations and workers
Fair trade seeks to promote the well-being and empowerment of farmers and workers in the Global South. This article traces the contested growth and configuration of Fairtrade International labour certification, providing a multifaceted and dynamic view of private regulation. I explain why Fairtrade International began certifying large enterprises and how its hired labour strategy has developed over time, illuminating fair trade’s move from peasan…
Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador
This article analyzes the strategic potential and empirical challenges of private governance in promoting decent work in global agriculture by curtailing buyer power and fostering labor agency, drawing lessons from Fairtrade International-certified flower plantations in Ecuador. The study explains (1) Fairtrade’s logic in promoting ‘trade fairness’ and ‘worker empowerment’ and operationalization of these values via its certification standards, (2…
The “new” internationalization of agriculture: A reformulation
Our research on the “new” internationalization of agriculture builds on analyses of the internationalization of capital and the New International Division of Labor, but reformulates “internationalization” as a contingent, political and economic process. We argue that shifts in the institutional structure of capitalism in the 1980s profoundly altered national policy options and agro-food markets. States, such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Domini…
Women in the Latin American Development Process
Emergences: Women's struggles for livelihood in Latin America
Emergences: Women's struggles for livelihood in Latin America." The Social Science Journal, 34(2), pp. 262–263
Harnessing Women's Work: Restructuring Agricultural and Industrial Labor Forces in the Dominican Republic
The recent period of crisis and adjustment in Latin America and the Caribbean is fueling a fundamentally gendered process of labor force restructuring in both agriculture and industry. An analysis of ongoing changes in the Dominican Republic finds that one of the most striking shifts in the labor market landscape involves women's increasing incorporation into nontraditional agriculture and export manufacturing. The Dominican state and corporation…
Negotiating Contract Farming in the Dominican Republic
This study analyzes the political and economic conditions that have fueled the rise of contract farming between peasant smallholders and agroindustrial firms in the Dominican Republic. Through a case study of tomato production, I illuminate the nature of contracting from the perspective of processing-firm officials and growers. I find that while processing firms pursue contracts to access peasant household land and labor, marginal producers turn …
Re-embedding global agriculture: The international organic and fair trade movements
Alternative trade in bananas: Obstacles and opportunities for progressive social change in the global economy
New Plantations, New Workers: Gender and Production Politics in the Dominican Republic
This study analyzes the gendered nature of recent production and labor force restructuring in the Dominican Republic. Using a longitudinal case study of work relations on a large transnational corporate pineapple plantation, the author explores the production politics involved in the initial corporate attempt to create a wage labor force and the subsequent replacement of employees with contracted labor crews. She demonstrates how female, and then…
Wages for Wives: Renegotiating Gender and Production Relations in Contract Farming in the Dominican Republic
Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks
This article analyzes the multifaceted connections linking consumers and producers in expanding North/South Fair Trade coffee networks. I develop a commodity network framework that builds on the commodity chain tradition, integrating insights from cultural studies, actor-network theory, and conventions approaches. This framework illuminates how material and ideological relations are negotiated across production and consumption arenas. In the case…
Fair trade coffee: Building producer capacity via global networks
This article examines the ongoing rapid expansion in Fair Trade coffee networks linking Northern consumers with producers in the global South. We provide a comparative analysis of the experiences of seven coffee producer co‐operatives in Latin America, identifying the characteristics which facilitate successful integration into Fair Trade networks. Our analysis finds that coffee organizations, communities and producers derive important material a…
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks
Keeping trade fair: Governance challenges in the fair trade coffee initiative
Fair trade has gained attention as an innovative market‐based mechanism for addressing social and environmental problems exacerbated by conventional global markets. Yet such initiatives are also regulatory mechanisms that establish voluntary alternative arrangements for governing production, commercialization and consumption of global commodities. Based on a recent study of fair trade coffee experiences in Latin America, this paper explores the c…
The future of Fair Trade coffee: Dilemmas facing Latin America's small-scale producers
Fair Trade has become a dynamic and successful dimension of an emerging counter-tendency to the neo-liberal globalisation regime. This study explores some of the dilemmas facing the Fair Trade movement as it seeks to broaden and deepen its impact among the rural poor of Latin America's coffee sector. We argue that the efforts to broaden Fair Trade's economic impact among poor, small-scale producers are creating challenges for deepening the politi…
Regulating sustainability in the coffee sector: A comparative analysis of third-party environmental and social certification initiatives
Product Review: Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy
The Organic Agro-Export Boom in the Dominican Republic: Maintaining Tradition or Fostering Transformation
The Dominican Republic has emerged as the world's foremost exporter of organic bananas and cocoa, a top exporter of organic coffee, and an export pioneer in new commodities like organic mangos. Pursuing a contextualized commodity network approach, I explain the rise of organic products within the broader forces fueling nontraditional agro-export growth and identify the key factors confi guring organic export networks today. The article analyzes t…
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to Traceability
Fair Trade Rooibos tea: Connecting South African producers and American consumer markets
Capitalism, Agriculture and World Economy
Fair Trade: Social regulation in global food markets
Fair Trade Flowers: Global Certification, Environmental Sustainability, and Labor Standards
This article analyzes the organization of the fair trade flower industry, integration ofEcuadorian enterprises into these networks, and power of certification to address key environmental and social concerns on participating estates. Pursuing a social regulatory approach, I locate fair trade within the field of new institutions that establish and enforce production criteria in international markets. My research finds that while firm owners and ma…
Fairtrade, certification, and labor: Global and local tensions in improving conditions for agricultural workers
Economics (29 works) · Political science (25 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (24 works) · Business (23 works) · International trade (17 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (17 works) · Fair trade (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Market economy (14 works) · Agriculture (12 works)