Fair trade and a global commodity: coffee in Costa Rica

Introduction: Approaching fair trade : coffee in Costa Rica

Creating cooperatives : the welfare state, coffee, and fair trade in Costa Rica

Sowing progress and contesting development in the Tilarán highlands

Farming for the global economy : 'playing' and 'juggling' in the market

Landowners and labourers : uncertainties, strategies, and tensions in the labour process

Working nature, working the market : sustainability and organic agriculture

Envisioning autarky : the family and the farm

Civil society : local development and the limits of government

Creating and contesting value : the Earth, labour and exchange

Conclusion: Fair trade and moral economies.