World Tea Expo 2017

Can a Tea Plantation Be Fair? Paradoxes and Promises of Fair Trade in Darjeeling, India (Room N239)

15 Jun 17
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tracks: Social, Ethical & Environmental

Speaker(s): SARAH BESKY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, BROWN UNIVERSITY

Darjeeling is among the world's most expensive tea, but its workers are among India's lowest-paid. Drawing on interviews and long-term research in Darjeeling, I will discuss a disconnect between tea plantation laborers' understandings of what they call "justice" and fair trade certifiers' vision of "fairness."