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The Journal of fair trade volume 4 issue 1 front cover is blue and displays simple graphics of items often associated with fair trade such as a cup of coffee, a chocolate bar, bananas and coffee beans.
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Cover of the Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies volume 3 issue 1. The front cover shows a screen print which combines a photograph from the late 19th-century of an indentured labourer with elements of official documents that determined the paths of indentured laborers' lives over the top.
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Global Faultlines volume 10 issue 1 front cover
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The cover of Prometheus Volume 39, Issue 2 is predominantly white and features an image of a Laconic ceramic depicting Atlas and Prometheus painted on it.
The cover image of Islamophobia Studies Journal Volume 8, Issue 1 depicts a man against a yellow backdrop, engrossed in news on a mobile phone that towers over him. The phone casts a shadow bearing the word 'islamophobia.
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Impacts of climate change, technology and war

We’re sharing latest publications from the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice and Prometheus – Critical Studies in Innovation, Ghana Journal of Sociology & Anthropology and People Centred – The Journal of Development Administration.

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Cover image from the Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation (Volume 20, Issue 2). The issue pays tribute to the intellectual legacy of Vincent Mosco. Image shows an old man and a boy stood by a dock.

Fair Trade, Dollar Dominance & Future Labour

Topics of Fair Trade, Dollar Dominance, AI and the Future of Labour are covered within thought provoking articles from the Journal of Fair Trade, World Review of Political Economy and the mega final issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation.

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Pan-African Women’s Day & Other News

In this African Journals Initiative newsletter, we would like to bring your attention to the recently celebrated Pan-African Women’s Day. We highlight an article by Derosha Moodley and Ansurie Pillay in the latest issue of Bakwethu.

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