Making Trouble: Fighting For Fair Trade Jewellery - Softcover

Making Trouble: Fighting for Fair Trade Jewellery

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 206 pages. Valerio, you're a natural born trouble-maker. Just make sure you make troubl e for the right reasons. Expelled from secondary school with these words ringin g in his ears, it took Greg Valerio a little while to find the right cause to de vote his trouble-making skills to - but eventually he found it. Fighting to appl y fair trade standards to the jewellery business has brought him up against an i ndustry riddled with problems. In the last fifteen years he has criss-crossed th e globe, from the arctic circle of Greenland, alluvial diamond fields of Sierra Leone and equatorial gold rich rainforests of South America, in an effort to giv e the customer an ethically pure piece of jewellery, and to give the producers o f that jewellery a fair wage and good working conditions. Along the way, he has exposed the jewellery industry's dirty secrets: pollution, child labour, crimina lity, exploitation, dangerous working practices and much more. And he has passio nately argued his case in boardrooms, sumptuous hotels and with government offic ials from Antwerp to Cape Town, to say there is another way. Having been told it was impossible to have gold jewellery that could be certified as fairly traded from the mine to the shop, he achieved this in the UK. Founder of Cred Jewellery in 1996, he was awarded The Observer Ethical Award 2011 for Campaigner of the Y ear. Artikel-Nr. 1126p

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