Gavin Fridell

Gavin Fridell is the Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University.

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  • The Fair Trade Handbook

    Building a Better World, Together

    Edited by Gavin Fridell, Zack Gross and Sean McHugh     October 2021

    Can global trade be made fair? This handbook brings together leading fair traders, activists, advocates and commentators in Canada and internationally, reflecting on the shortfalls of conventional business, production and global trade and how we can change our policies, practices and behaviours.

  • Alternative Trade

    Legacies for the Future

    By Gavin Fridell     August 2013

    Free trade does not make a significantly positive contribution to a society’s well being, nor does real free trade exist. In Alternative Trade, Gavin Fridell confronts these assumptions through a passionate and rigorous appraisal of alternative trade and its imperfect legacy. Examining the history of alternative trade models – the International Coffee Agreement, the Canadian Wheat Board and the European-Caribbean banana regime – Fridell exposes the unbridgeable gap between “free trade” proclamations and the lack of actually existing free trade, arguing that the alternative trade models are much more socially efficient than what followed in their wake.