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Fair Care? How Ecuadorian Women Negotiate Childcare In Fair Trade Flower Production, Corrie Grosse
Fair Care? How Ecuadorian Women Negotiate Childcare In Fair Trade Flower Production, Corrie Grosse
Environmental Studies Faculty Publications
Highlights
• Ecuadorian mothers working in fair trade flowers have concerns about childcare.
• To manage, they developed “gendered economic strategies” (Casanova, 2011).
• Their strategies involved diverse childcare arrangements and visions for the future.
• These strategies maintain gendered and privatized provision of care.
• Fair trade floriculture does not sufficiently support care.
Women Working On A Fair Flower Farm In Ecuador: An Ethnographic Study, Corrie Grosse
Women Working On A Fair Flower Farm In Ecuador: An Ethnographic Study, Corrie Grosse
Environmental Studies Faculty Publications
Despite a history of worker exploitation and environmental degradation, today, the cut-flower industry is striving for ethical production practices. Ecuador is leading the way in this regard, and one farm, Fairtrade-certified Nevado Roses, appears to be a shining example. In 2012, I set out to conduct ethnographic research centering workers' perspectives about labor conditions and life as Fairtrade rose cultivators at Nevado Roses. I wanted to understand how women, who comprise the majority of flower workers, fare on a farm with socially and environmentally sustainable policies. The research confirmed the benefits of ethical production practices, but also revealed that Fairtrade …