devalued dollar 60–1
Dollar–Wall Street regime 125–6
effect of Cold War 63
and El Salvador 38
financialization of coffee 124–6
“Green Revolution” chemicals 127
ICA system and 58–63
market vs. social spending 97
specialty coffee 13–14
Vietnam and 76
Venezuela 128
Vietnam
ACPC and 120
blends Robusta with Arabica 73
capitalist trade and 77–8
coffee statecraft in 72–3, 77–83, 91–3
entrance to coffee market 19–20, 72
“free trade” impacts 94
French introduce Robusta 77
gradual market liberalization 82–3
growth of coffee export 36, 134
historical perspective of 74–7
impact on environment 89
Kinh population 79
other crops 78
poverty and 87
rapid growth of trade 63
Robusta beans and 56, 84, 90, 145
rural labor 85
shortcoming of coffee expansion 88–91
success of gamble 83–8
war in 75, 78–9, 84
Western media and 90
World Bank and 87
WTO and 82–3
yields 84
Vietnam Bank for Social Policy 81
Vietnamese Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (VBARD) 81
Vietorisz, Thomas 67–8
Vinacafe (Vietnam Coffee Corporation) 81
violence and conflict
historical perspective 10, 46
post-colonial politics and 35–9
unequal coffee relations and 23
Wal-Mart 119
Wall Street Journal 2
Weis, Tony 122–3
Wilson, Anthony 97
Wood, Ellen Meiksins 9, 24
workers
anti-union corporations 102–4
branding and 101–4
collective bargaining 108
continuing inequalities 143
Costa Rica 40
demand state support 148
freedom of association 111
Guatemala 39
illness from chemicals 127
meeting fair trade standards 109
migration 3
on plantations 35
retail 103
Southern fair trade initiatives 140–2
states and 121
young and high-risk 102
see also inequality and poverty
World Bank
fair trade and 108, 113
liberalizing Vietnam 76
sustainable coffee certification 6
Vietnam and 72, 73, 87, 91
World Trade Organization (WTO) 82–3
Yemen 26
Coffee Page 20