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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.