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Making Trouble: Fighting For Fair Trade Jewellery - Softcover

Valerio, Greg

 
9780745956039: Making Trouble: Fighting For Fair Trade Jewellery

Synopsis

Fair trade jewellery has been around for a while - but while those crafting it worked under Fair Trade principles, the gold, silver and precious stones they were using came from some very murky places. Small scale mining is the second biggest global employer, and many of those mines pay a pittance, forcing their workers to labour long hours in dirty and dangerous conditions - for a pittance. Informed by those in the jewellery trade that this would never change, Greg Valerio set out to prove them wrong. Fairly traded gold is now available in the Uk, although the battle continues for other metals and products.

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About the Author

Greg Valerio is the founder of CRED Jewellery and co-founder of Fair Jewellery Action. After a long but successful campaign to produce fairly traded gold, he won the Global Campaigner Observer Ethical Awards for 2011. He is currently working with Fairtrade International (FLO) co-ordinating their International Fairtrade Gold programme, with Peace Direct on aPeace Gold programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is also aninitiator and committee member of the British Jewellers Association andNational Association of Goldsmiths ethics working group. He acts as an adviser to the Diamond Development Initiative.

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