Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label “Mexican farmworkers”

Capitalist Modernity: ‘Fair Trade’ Labels Conceal Brutal Abuses of Farmworkers

“We interviewed two hundred workers for our new report ‘ Certified Exploitation: How Equitable Food Initiative and Fair Trade USA Fail to Protect Farmworkers in the Mexican Produce Industry .’ They detailed widespread wage theft, sexual harassment, rampant retaliation, and, in the most extreme cases, forced labor.”