English to Italian Social Sciences Economics Commercio equo solidale in Italia

What is interesting about the data, then, is that fair-traders saw salaried fair-trade work positively and volunteering negatively, seemingly contradicting the scholarship on alienation and reciprocity that sees the former kind of labour as commodified and the latter as (freely) gifted. I suggest that wage labour was thought of as having positive social value because for Palermitan workers it represented their agency in a wider social system of exchange ** framed by the idea ** of southern Italy’s unequal development. Within this system, charitable labour took on negative significance because it was conceived of not as the pure gift discussed above, but as an exchange taking place in an intrinsically unequal context.